GeoHealth US Corp produces environmental monitoring data in the U.S., and aggregates that data with historical environ- mental data from U.S. Government sources. Data sources include  programs that track pollution history at the US Environmental Protection Agency, and air quality data collected by GeoHealth US Corp itself. Environmental monitoring data is combined with information from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, including the U.S. National Library of Medicine, to automatically associate environmental conditions with diseases and symptoms. Semantic Web techniques are used to per- form the data integration, navigate the data for analysis, and to drive the display of contextually relevant data in a Web user interface. Full paper available at http://geohealth.us/assets/docs/iswc2015/GeoHealthUS-PosterAndDemo-ISWC2015.pdf

1. How healthy
is your
location?
We track the chemicals, industries
and pollutants that drive health risks
– right in your neighborhood.
Industry Track:
”Semantic
Composition of
Disparate Data in
GeohealthUS for
Navigation,
Display & Analysis”
by David Wood, PhD
Bernadette Hyland
International Semantic
Web Conference
#ISWC2015
@GeoHealthUS

2. Air quality where you live
& work
drastically impacts all
of us
>80% of $3T
spent on chronic
disease treatment
LO C AT I O N M AT T E R S

3. • Air quality &
environmental data is
SPARSE, FRAGMENTED &
DIFFICULT TO COMBINE
• Open data on the
environment & human
health is late (often by
years), dirty and regional,
at best
S TAT U S Q U O V S . G E O H E A LT H .U S
• High quality sensors
have drastically come
down in price
• In 2015, we built a
sensor-based device to
augment open [historic]
data with realtime
sensor collected data
• We use a hybrid of
semantic & relational
technologies

4. Endplate - Anodised Aluminium
Air vent
All Fasteners used on this product are Stainless Steel
Extrusion fully enclosed -
Powder Coated Aluminium
Rubber - Bumper Strip
2x Top and 2x Bottom on the Product
Endplate - Anodised Aluminium
with Air ventSeal on both ends
S E N S O R D E V I C E

5. MAKING THE WORLD
HUMAN-SCALE
NAVIGATION BY
TRAFFIC, TOLLS …
HOW ABOUT BY
POLLUTION?

6. W H AT I F W E C O U L D M A K E D I F F E R E N T D E C I S I O N S
B E C A U S E W E N O W K N O W W H AT I S A R O U N D U S ?

7. A P O S S I B L E N AT U R A L G A S L E A K I N
WA S H I N G T O N , D C .

8. M O B I L E R E A D Y
• Particulate
matter (>1 PM)
• Volatile organic
compounds
• Chemicals
• Ammonia
• Arsenic
• Benzene
• Lead
• Mercury …

9. Summer ’15 - Pilot
complete, data from
DC to Richmond.
Fall ‘15 - Data
collection with
strategic partners on
East & West Coasts
1H 2016- Expand
geographic coverage
E X PA N D I N G G EO H E A LT H U S TO
H AV E N AT I O N A L COV E R A G E

10. Poster session tonight!
http://geohealth.us/assets/docs/
iswc2015/GeoHealthUS-ISWC-2015-
Poster-20150508.pdf
Industry paper http://
geohealth.us/assets/docs/iswc2015/
GeoHealthUS-IndustrialTrack-
ISWC2015.pdf
Bernadette
Hyland
@BernHyland
David Wood
@prototypo