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.

guardians of the respiratory system

Summary

Since the covid-19 outbreak, people have been suffering from various problems like air pollution. Finding ways to purify indoor air could be a major key in ending this pandemic, that’s why the following solution was innovated: HPA filter, which can filter partciles up to (0.3 micrometers) small, will be usedA suction motor will be used inside of the filter to attract the air inside and filter it from any bacterial or virus particles, besides any air pollutant.The device entirely will be fixed

How We Addressed This Challenge

Purification of air was our major concern as we found out according to Nasa data that Exposure to outdoor air pollution is responsible for an estimated 4 million premature deaths annually with about another 3-4 million resulting from exposure to indoor air pollution.

Since air filters are the main components, it was concluded that the best one to use would be an HPA (High Efficiency Particular Air) filter, which can filter particles up to (0.3 microns) small, knowing that the smallest covid-19 particle has a diameter about (0.6 microns)

To make it more beneficial, it will be connected to a mobile application that will allow people in the surrounding area to monitor the air condition though simple graphs and figures. It will also notify them if there is coronavirus in the air. Moreover, the application will be sending daily tips to keep healthy during the outbreak and it will connect people with doctors and experts if they have any concerns. This will be done by the help of IOT advanced technology.

How We Developed This Project

First of all we made a survey - https://forms.gle/HvYCuvpCwkHtTYu97 - to know how people see the pandemic, their answers were inspirational in many ways especially in choosing the challenge and developing it. We were aware that having purified air will be helpful and that’s why we made our “Life Provider” device which is presented and elaborated in our website. The website we made aims to present our idea of purifying air and solving the challenge, it also shows our survey’s results as well (or will be added later on). It is made up of HTML5, CSS and a little bit of JS. Basically, we used HTML for the skeleton of the website and for linking the web-page, CSS for the unique design and JS to change the year next to the copyrights in the footer automatically. We used navigation bar, articles, and a bunch of other dividers to make sure it’s well organised and easy for the user to deal with. Users can easily reach to the web-page they like by clicking on the photo description which is linked by html. We also have our reference list which will be added too. We still have many future plans regarding the website, including showing the survey’s results, discussing and elaborating more and adding more features that will improve the design as well.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNVdC79DTQ9tV-C4JSkWwcGSIIDJuN7U/view?usp=sharing

Data & Resources

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/can-hepa-filters-capture-nanoparticles/

/can-masks-capture-coronavirus/

http://www.aero.jaxa.jp/eng/research/star/safeavio/news170313.html

https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33205554/copyright-dates-using-bootstrap

Tags
#air quality #quarantine safely #healthy mindset #inner stability #air system #safe environment
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.