OxygenArt

OxygenArt| Purify the Air Supply

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.

Summary

At OxygenArt we know the importance of brain oxygenation, and this is why we created, not only an application, but a concept that will improve your performance, comfort, health and quality of life, as well as that of others. We are an assistant that will help you keep your environments more purified, renewed and healthy thanks to a personalized and gradual 21-day program (new habit), that is, it begins with the smallest and simplest actions so that, after generating a habit, the actions are automatic and natural."The air is pounding on your door, ¿are you going to let it in?"

How We Addressed This Challenge

The average brain has little capacity to store nutrients, so it demands a high supply of oxygen and glucose that is satisfied by blood flow. Although the brain represents 2% of total body weight, it consumes 20% of oxygen. Oxygen ensures the activity of the brain, as well as the functioning of the nervous system, glands, muscles and organs.

The problem of why we feel suffocated or locked in certain environments has, at some point, formed part of our lives, but in the current situation of a pandemic these feelings seem to appear with greater frequency and emphasis. The WHO (World Health Organization) warns of health, productivity and comfort problems due to poor indoor air quality (stale air), in addition, classifies it as the tenth avoidable risk factor.

Daily skin and / or eye irritations, respiratory diseases, lack of energy, allergies, asthma, bronchitis, etc. They can be avoided simply by keeping our environments ventilated, and OxygenArt teaches you how to do it in a simple, effective and not overwhelming way.

How We Developed This Project

OxygenArt collects 2 types of key data:

1- Provided by the user: the user must complete the application boxes (room dimensions, heater, air conditioning, windows, cardinal direction of the windows, ground floor, upper floor, number of people, forced or natural ventilation, cross, "chimney effect" or infiltration, etc.) in order to provide ventilation recommendations that are appropriate and specific for that room in question.

2- NASA meteorological service: Some of these data are the surface, height above sea level, winds, humidity, atmospheric pressure, sunrise time, temperature, dryness, rainfall, etc.

It is through these data that the application selects the appropriate recommendations for the type of environment described above and provides information on how, when, for how long and what to ventilate, as well as having a personalized 21-day program (minimum period of time that it takes our brain to create a habit) that, through a few quick and simple steps, provides optimal ventilation results in the environments and, therefore, also in our health, productivity and comfort.

Future projects of the application:

- Use a premium option to deal with issues such as pollution and savings in services.

- "Curious data" section.

- Help claustrophobic people.

Different kind of users:

- "Athlete user", to discuss deeply the relationship between brain oxygenation and decision- making (prefrontal cortex) and how to improve oxygenation flow.

- "Company user", where records and regulations on consumption, ways of saving, such as improving the quality of work environments, are kept.

- "Home infrastructure user", developing and providing information on how ventilation flow can be increased when building a house, a building, a museum, among others. On top of that, it can reduce costs and increase air quality, productivity, health and comfort.

- "Rural user", dealing with issues of consumption, savings, care and more.

Project Demo

The content is the same, in different formats, in case you can't open one of them

Video

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1qmafd665qoof1x/Nasa_SpaceApps_2020_Oxigenart.mp4?dl=0

Slides

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y1q6g9fah0iewpr/Nasa_SpaceApps_2020_Oxigenart.ppsx?dl=0

Pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/plws8rnvypct08c/Nasa_SpaceApps_2020_Oxigenart.pdf?dl=0

Data & Resources

1. http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2015/08/Biologial_air_filter_for_International_Space_Station

2. https://ciencia.nasa.gov/science-at-nasa/2004/09jan_sport

3. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/health-and-air-quality-data-pathfinder

4. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200000365.pdf

5. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2013/cg_4.html

6. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Node-3_Cupola/Air_Revitalization_System

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

8. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/g-281237_eclss_0.pdf

9. http://wsn.spaceflight.esa.int/docs/Factsheets/30%20ECLSS%20LR.pdf

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

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14. https://www.who.int/es/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-health

15. https://www.who.int/es/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health

16. https://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/air_quality/es/index1.html

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21. https://neurodoza.com/mejorar-oxigenacion-del-cerebro/

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25. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.caloryfrio.com/images/articulos/ventilacion/sistemas-ventilacion-viviendas-tabla-6-1.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.caloryfrio.com/aire-acondicionado/ventilacion/sistemas-de-ventilacion-en-viviendas-principales-problemas.html&docid=Bw5vsgXwZL4I8M&tbnid=sbrBedEp0r1yVM:&vet=1&w=429&h=378&source=sh/x/im

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30. https://www.sport.es/labolsadelcorredor/oxigenacion-cerebral/

31. https://www.fisiorespiracion.es/blog/como-medir-humedad-con-higrometro/

32. https://www.fisiorespiracion.es/blog/humedad-ideal-en-casa/

33. https://www.grupolomonaco.com/blog/2019/09/04/la-ventilacion-del-dormitorio-fundamental-para-la-salud/

34. https://www.sabervivirtv.com/medicina-general/ventilar-bien-dormitorio-ayuda-dormir-mejor_905

Global Judging

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