Purify the Air Supply

Has your time spent indoors increased during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of stay-at-home and shelter-in-place policies worldwide? Your challenge is to use the International Space Station (ISS) as inspiration and develop a system to monitor and/or purify indoor air. It is entirely up to you whether the system you design is able to be used on Earth (for example in homes, businesses, transportation, etc.) and/or in space.

JantUsAir

Summary

We are AirUsGuri, and we have created a product that provides quality of life through the purification of polluted air. The JantUsAir is a device that monitors the internal environment from sensors, which in addition to providing information about air quality and other contaminants, has a filtering and air purifying device.we present our product, where, to take care of our health, we need to breathe fresh air anywhere. This project was created to benefit everyone's health and encourage sustainable habits, in addition to valuing the use of plants and other natural means. For the quality of life we ​​want, we need simple actions, and nature can be the key to everything.

How We Addressed This Challenge

With the quarantine measure, safety measures have been taken to keep people at home, resulting in a decrease in outdoor air pollution in many countries (NASA data). The concern to maintain air quality indoors also became important. 

Therefore, we present our product (JantUsAir), where, to take care of our health, we need to breathe fresh air anywhere. This project was created to benefit everyone's health and encourage sustainable habits, in addition to valuing the use of plants and other natural means. 

For the quality of life we ​​want, we need simple actions, and nature can be the key to everything.

How We Developed This Project

We started our jorney thinking about ideas and problems that we have passin by during this time of quarentine. So, all the ideas was coming, we started to read the resources that was avaible to us. We had the name, a twitter account, but nothing of the project. Then, we had the idea to change the air the we breath at the same time, visualize all the pollution in the air. So we started our project and we use the people that was available to help us on Discord. So everything was going fine, but was just the beggining. A cup of coffe felt on the notebook so was kind hard, but we moved on. We had the idea to at the same time our dispositive starts to purifying the air e filtering the bacterias and viruses in the air, we could give incentives to use plants to help the environment, by the app. So then, we use the resources about the influence of quarantine in reducing pollution and made our project.

Data & Resources

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/air-pollution/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/drop-in-air-pollution-over-northeast

https://www.limaonagua.com.br/decoracao/12-plantas-que-purificam-o-ar-da-sua-casa-e-ainda-deixam-tudo-mais-bonito/

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146741/nitrogen-dioxide-levels-rebound-in-china

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-52239099

Tags
#Air Quality # Sustainability #Nature #Air Purifier #Air filter #NoPollution
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.