About
About Rate My Air
Rate My Air is an independent site about respiratory health and the air around us, written and maintained by Claudio Pisani.
Where the idea came from
What started as an idea to help someone very important to me became part of my thesis, and then a working prototype.
The original question was simple: could we make it easier for someone experiencing respiratory symptoms to understand what was happening around them at the time?
That question became Breath Context, and this site grew out of the same work. While building the prototype I spent a lot of time reading research on respiratory disease and looking at the technology people are offered to manage it. Much of it was scattered across journals, locked behind paywalls, or written for clinicians rather than for the people living with the condition. Rate My Air is where I collect what I find and write it up in plainer language, with the sources linked so you can check them yourself.
This project began from a very personal place, and I remain grateful to the person whose experience first led me to look at the problem.
Who I am
I am Claudio Pisani. My BSc thesis at the University of Wolverhampton was Asthma — A Machine Learning Approach, and I have been following research and technology in respiratory health since.
I am not a clinician. I do not diagnose, treat or give medical advice, and nothing on this site is a substitute for talking to a qualified healthcare professional. What I can do is read widely, summarise carefully, and always show you where the information came from.
How the articles are written
I follow feeds covering published respiratory research, public-health guidance and new technology, including monitoring devices, wearables and cleaning appliances. When something looks genuinely useful I write it up for this site and link the sources I used.
The research is not mine. The articles are: they are summaries and comparisons I have put together from published work, and the studies and guidance behind them are cited so you can read the originals. Equipment articles are researched comparisons rather than hands-on tests, and each one says so.
The full detail of how topics are chosen, how articles are drafted and what I do and do not claim is set out in the editorial policy.
Getting in touch
For anything about the site, an article or a correction, email [email protected]. For feedback on Breath Context, use [email protected] or the feedback form.
You can also find me on LinkedIn.
Please do not send personal health information. I cannot give medical advice or respond to anything clinical.
Breath Context
Breath Context is a respiratory diary prototype. It lets someone record a respiratory event such as wheezing, breathlessness or coughing, and see it alongside the environmental conditions at the time: air quality, pollutants, pollen and weather. Over time the aim is to help people explore whether certain conditions repeatedly coincide with their symptoms.
It stays deliberately descriptive. It does not attempt to diagnose, predict or establish causation, and it is not a medical device. I am also exploring whether physiological data from wearables could add to the picture.
The prototype is still early, so I would genuinely value feedback: whether the concept makes sense, whether this is a problem you recognise, and what would make it useful enough to keep using. Constructive criticism is more useful to me than praise.