Particulate detection and air advice provision

An asthma management device comprising:

• a sensor to detect presence of allergen with sizes smaller than 5 micron in an air stream, and to output signals indicative of the amount of allergen present, if any, at different points in time;
• a lung function meter to measure a lung function metric of a user;
• and
• a communication interface coupled to the sensor sub-assembly to facilitate forwarding of allergen data values digitized from said output signals and said measured lung function metrics to a geographically removed air/asthma advice server.

A personal asthma management device comprising:

• a sensor to detect presence of allergen with sizes smaller than 5 micron in an air stream, and to output signals indicative of the amount of allergen present, if any, at different points in time;
• at least one sensor to measure at least one metric for ambient air;
• and
• a communication interface coupled to the sensor sub-assembly to facilitate forwarding of allergen data values digitized from the output signals and said at least one measured ambient air metric to a geographically removed air/asthma advice server.

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• a first and a second communication interface coupled to the processor;
• and
• a storage medium coupled to the processor having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions to be executed by the processor to facilitate receipt of allergen data of a location collected by a proximally located allergen data collection device through the first communication interface, and transmission of the received allergen data to a geographically removed air/asthma advice server through the second communication interface.