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This study is an innovation research project involving the development of the "Smart PM 2.5 Guardian" application, which is capable of monitoring and analyzing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in real time via smartphone. The objectives of this study are to raise users’ awareness regarding health and associated risks, in order to reduce illness or long-term health problems through a system that records daily, individualized data for health-risk assessment. In addition, the study aims to develop a primary health-care system that provides users with personalized health guidance. The application is an improvement upon existing air-quality and health notification apps, which are unable to deliver personalized health information or recommendations. The application retrieves AQI data from an information system using API keys. The target groups include children and adolescents, adults, the elderly, and pregnant women.

The findings indicate that the developed application helped 70% of users reduce their health risks, increased users’ knowledge of self-care and health maintenance, and improved their ability to protect themselves from PM2.5 exposure.