Silent Cosmic| Light the Path

Light the Path

The COVID-19 pandemic initiated changes in human population movements and activities around the world. Your challenge is to use Earth observations to explore how human activity and regional land-based human movement patterns may have shifted in response to COVID-19.

Office Around

Summary

The “Office Around” project is an online platform that intends to assist companies and employees to return to face-to-face activities during and after the pandemic in a secure way, by rotating people in home offices. The companies will use the workers registrations in the platform and the system will provide a scheme showing who will work on each day. The algorithm will take in consideration the contamination levels of Covid-19 and will utilize the data from NASA and partnering agencies to detect levels of pollution of the region to delimit the most efficient rotation plan, being more enforced or flexible.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The chosen challenge was “Light the Path”, due to the high concentration of people in urban areas which generates higher emissions of pollutants and Covid-19 transmission rates. With the “lockdown”, the ESA has provided data that shows that cities such as Rome and Paris have had an improvement in the air quality. Therefore, why not contribute to the environment and provide for the well-being of workers by making a home office rotation? This is the proposal of “Office Around”, an online platform used to distribute home office days between workers, which promotes a safer transition back to face-to-face activities.

How We Developed This Project

The project was inspired by the population that needs to face the requirement of going back to work after the quarantine. The best solution found, according to the team’s level of knowledge, was the application. For this, the languages HTML, PHP CSS and Bootstrap were used to develop the interface. The team used Visual Studio Code. Page designs were made for the prototype. The application link: https://officearound.herokuapp.com/index.html

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/VUcO3WPDMdE

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Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.