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Louisville has one of the highest asthma rates in the United States, along with consistantly being ranked one of the worst places to live with air pollution.
Inverse sits down with the director of innovation of Louisville Ted Smith to see how, with AIR Louisville program, he set out to address this situation.
Welcome to Louisville, Kentucky, a city perhaps best known for the Kentucky Derby, but which is consistently ranked among the worst in the United States in terms of air quality. A city not known for tech, we explore their innovative approach to the issue: providing sensors that people with asthma could (voluntarily) put into their inhalers. Following someone with asthma, we see a simple puff registers a geotagged location and data about the air at that location. We then see how the city compiles this data into a map that provides warning areas for its citizens and indicates to the city areas that need cleaned up.
We also talk to Melissa Williams Director of Clinical Innovation who shows us the smart device.
AIR Louisville was a community program that used smart connected inhalers to help improve the asthma problem in Louisville.
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Louisville has one of the highest asthma rates in the United States, along with consistantly being ranked one of the worst places to live with air pollution.
Inverse sits down with the director of innovation of Louisville Ted Smith to see how, with AIR Louisville program, he set out to address this situation.
Welcome to Louisville, Kentucky, a city perhaps best known for the Kentucky Derby, but which is consistently ranked among the worst in the United States in terms of air quality. A city not known for tech, we explore their innovative approach to the issue: providing sensors that people with asthma could (voluntarily) put into their inhalers. Following someone with asthma, we see a simple puff registers a geotagged location and data about the air at that location. We then see how the city compiles this data into a map that provides warning areas for its citizens and indicates to the city areas that need cleaned up.
We also talk to Melissa Williams Director of Clinical Innovation who shows us the smart device.
AIR Louisville was a community program that used smart connected inhalers to help improve the asthma problem in Louisville.
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youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-prnCYnAQ&list=PLh9sgDrUcPgX_oLis3mNzFtUmPZQVhgBc
About Inverse
Inverse sparks curiosity about the future. We explore the science of anything, innovations that shape tomorrow, and ideas that stretch our minds. Our goal is to motivate the next generation to build a better world.
http://www.inverse.com
#Louisville #health #inverse
