Abstract
- Solar radiation has an important impact on human health and wellbeing, with both harmful and beneficial effects. Accurately monitoring personal solar exposure in real-time could be highly beneficial for personal day-to-day health and for photobiological studies that deepen our understanding of the impact of the sun on our health.
- A field test of a global satellite-based digital solution for personal solar exposure dosimetry (“ExpoDose” by siHealth Ltd, UK) has been conducted
- ExpoDose, installed on a smartphone, is shown to be comparable in accuracy to wearable dosimeters. Wearable instruments are more expensive, hard to maintain, hard to scale and suffer from low compliancy by participants. Remote monitoring can address these issues. Solar dose is measured remotely with 1 minute resolution for any number of users, multiple action spectra andmultiple body sites (planes) simultaneously.
- Automatic outdoor detection using smartphone sensors allows long-term automated tracking of personal solar exposure
Authors
Marina Venturini, Dermatology Department, University of Brescia and ASST SpedaliCiviliHospital, Piazzale SpedaliCivili1, 25123, Brescia, Italy
Rowan Temple, siHealth Ltd, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 OQX, United Kingdom
Edoardo Gabrielli, siHealth Photonics Srl, Via Lampredi 45, 57121, Livorno, Italy
Marco Morelli, siHealth Ltd, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 OQX, United Kingdom
Piergiacomo Calzavara-Pinton, Dermatology Department, University of Brescia and ASST SpedaliCiviliHospital, Piazzale SpedaliCivili1, 25123, Brescia, Italy
