Abstract

Personal health monitoring devices may detect physiological changes but can lack environmental context to determine a cause, while environmental alert systems may rely on generic, non-personalized data. Systems and methods are described that can algorithmically fuse multiple data streams. These streams can include real-time physiological data from a wearable computing device (e.g., a smart watch, fitness tracker), such as heart rate variability; hyperlocal environmental data, such as air quality or noise levels; and contextual data, such as a user's location and activity level. This fusion of data may be used to compute a personalized risk index. The index may then be used to generate dynamic, context-aware alerts that can differentiate between physiological responses to benign activities, such as exercise, and those potentially triggered by environmental stressors, which can provide more actionable and personalized risk assessments.

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