The PULSE Project: A Case of Use of Big Data
Uses Toward a Cohomprensive Health Vision
of City Well Being
Domenico Vito
1(&) , Manuel Ottaviano
2
, Riccardo Bellazzi
1 ,
Cristiana Larizza
1 , Vittorio Casella
3 , Daniele Pala
3
,
and Marica Franzini
3
1 Centre of Health Technologies, Università degli studi Pavia,
Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy
dvito.pulse@gmail.com, {riccardo.bellazzi,
cristiana.larizza}@unipv.it
2 E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicació, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Madrid Av. Complutense, 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain
mottaviano@lst.tfo.upm.es
3 Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture,
Università degli studi Pavia, Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, PV, Italy
{vittorio.casella,daniele.pala,
marica.franzini}@unipv.it
Abstract. Despite the silent effects sometimes hidden to the major audience, air
pollution is becoming one of the most impactful threat to global health. Cities
are the places where deaths due to air pollution are concentrated most.
In order to correctly address intervention and prevention thus is essential to
assest the risk and the impacts of air pollution spatially and temporally inside the
urban spaces. PULSE aims to design and build a large-scale data management
system enabling real time analytics of health, behaviour and environmental data
on air quality. The objective is to reduce the environmental and behavioral risk of
chronic disease incidence to allow timely and evidence-driven management of
epidemiological episodes linked in particular to two pathologies; asthma and type
2 diabetes in adult populations. developing a policy-making across the domains
of health, environment, transport, planning in the PULSE test bed cities.
Keywords: Air pollution Á Health Á Data platform Á Participation
1 Introduction
Air pollution has become silently and hiddendly one of the most impactful menace to
global health.
The European Environmental agency [1] estimates that premature deaths attributable to exposure to air pollution of fine matter particles reach are about 412 000 in over
41 EU countries. The exposure to NO2 and O3 concentrations on the same countries in
2016 has been around 71000 and 15000 respectively.
© The Author(s) 2020
M. Jmaiel et al. (Eds.): ICOST 2020, LNCS 12157, pp. 423–431, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51517-1_39
Uses Toward a Cohomprensive Health Vision
of City Well Being
Domenico Vito
1(&) , Manuel Ottaviano
2
, Riccardo Bellazzi
1 ,
Cristiana Larizza
1 , Vittorio Casella
3 , Daniele Pala
3
,
and Marica Franzini
3
1 Centre of Health Technologies, Università degli studi Pavia,
Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy
dvito.pulse@gmail.com, {riccardo.bellazzi,
cristiana.larizza}@unipv.it
2 E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicació, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Madrid Av. Complutense, 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain
mottaviano@lst.tfo.upm.es
3 Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture,
Università degli studi Pavia, Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, PV, Italy
{vittorio.casella,daniele.pala,
marica.franzini}@unipv.it
Abstract. Despite the silent effects sometimes hidden to the major audience, air
pollution is becoming one of the most impactful threat to global health. Cities
are the places where deaths due to air pollution are concentrated most.
In order to correctly address intervention and prevention thus is essential to
assest the risk and the impacts of air pollution spatially and temporally inside the
urban spaces. PULSE aims to design and build a large-scale data management
system enabling real time analytics of health, behaviour and environmental data
on air quality. The objective is to reduce the environmental and behavioral risk of
chronic disease incidence to allow timely and evidence-driven management of
epidemiological episodes linked in particular to two pathologies; asthma and type
2 diabetes in adult populations. developing a policy-making across the domains
of health, environment, transport, planning in the PULSE test bed cities.
Keywords: Air pollution Á Health Á Data platform Á Participation
1 Introduction
Air pollution has become silently and hiddendly one of the most impactful menace to
global health.
The European Environmental agency [1] estimates that premature deaths attributable to exposure to air pollution of fine matter particles reach are about 412 000 in over
41 EU countries. The exposure to NO2 and O3 concentrations on the same countries in
2016 has been around 71000 and 15000 respectively.
© The Author(s) 2020
M. Jmaiel et al. (Eds.): ICOST 2020, LNCS 12157, pp. 423–431, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51517-1_39