Our project is a scientific solution to what has been submitted by this challenge. It is an easy and applicable way of monitoring the crowded places and minimizing the spread of COVID-19, since our app will warn you how many people are in the establishment you want to go, with the purpose of reducing the chances of getting infected by coronavirus.
Our team was inspired by the challenge #9 Human Factors due to the possibility of using geographic and temporal mapping patterns to decrease the incidence of dissemination of COVID-19.
Facing the search for solutions to our challenge, our approach was the current conditions of contagion, in which several countries are flexibilizing social isolation and we thought of ways to contain this advance of COVID-19 cases with economic recovery.
First, the SEDAC Global COVID-19 Viewer platform will be used in order to locate regions with higher numbers of infected and dead by the virus, and thus establish a relationship between the characteristics of users and what impact they cause the spread of the disease. In addition, through geolocation data (GPS) provided by NASA and LBS data, we can infer the number of people present in a given location in real time, thus having knowledge about the rate of agglomeration.
Among the problems and achievements that our team had, respectively, are the implementation of the project since no member of our team has computer knowledge to develop applications. On the other hand, one of our achievements was our communication plan and our brainstorming of ideas in which creative solutions emerged, easy to be applied and that make sense with the current reality, that is, applicable and promising.
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1) We will use SEDAC Global COVID-19 Viewer to locate regions with the highest amount of infected and dead by the virus. It will also be validated to establish a match between user characteristics (such as age and gender) and the impact they cause at the risk of disease. If the individual is, for example, senile and located in more vulnerable regions, the application should adapt to such conditions, offering options of establishments with even lower capacity.
2) In addition, with the help of NASA Worldview it is possible to get a better view of urban areas around the world, that are likely to be crowded.
3)Through geolocation data (GPS) provided by NASA and LBS(Location Based System) data, which do not depend on an internet connection, we can infer the number of people present at a given location in real time, having knowledge about the rate of crowding of people in common access places.