Quiet Planet

The COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting social distancing recommendations and related restrictions have led to numerous short-term changes in economic and social activity around the world, all of which may have impacts on our environment. Your challenge is to use space-based data to document the local to global environmental changes caused by COVID-19 and the associated societal responses.

Safescape

Summary

We will be focusing on Quiet Planet and specifically on healthcare industries as we think that we are able to help the users the most. We target audiences like daily users, people who are not aware of the pandemic and frontliners. My team plans to come out with an app that is able to help and create awareness to the community and minimize the risk of infections of the COVID-19.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our idea focuses on Quiet Planet problems and solutions. We came up with an idea to create an app to solve the problems that the citizens are facing in the healthcare sector because of the change in lifestyle, in Covid-19 pandemic. App features are:

1. Body temperature sensor

  • When user’s body temperature fulfils COVID-19 symptom then app notifies authorities

2. Location Notifications

  • User’s location history
  • Shows hospital/clinic nearby
  • Shows shops with medical supplies nearby
  • History/alert of COVID-19 cases
  • Covid-19 testing area
  • Steps Walked

3. Symptoms Checklists

  • Check the symptoms of particular illness

4. Health History Report

  • Able to track back what sickness or accidents you had

5. Pre-Register

  • Pre-reserved hospital/clinic visitation

6. E-billing

  • Decreased in producing on paperwork
  • Total spent on medical

7. Air humidity check

  • Checks surrounding humidity and shows chances of COVID-19 surviving

Considering the Covid-19 pandemic and the societal response to the situation, we have listed necessary measures for the benefit of the people locally and globally. The main contribution of our app is to minimize the infections of the COVID-19 by creating awareness to the community through notification and news, as well as to increase life quality of community by making everything in healthcare to become more convenient.

How We Developed This Project

To build our prototype application, we have used a system named Marvel. We choose Marvel because it has everything we need to bring ideas to life and transform how we create digital products with our team. Therefore, we can design and wireframe with ease. As our team is not a coding expert yet, Marvel allows us to start working on our prototype using Sketch, Photoshop, or even a traditional pen and paper as we only need to upload our pictures to Marvel. Besides, it syncs automatically. We do not need to worry about manually updating and syncing our prototype. Meanwhile, we can collaborate easily. As the competition is held during the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot meet up and do it together. However, Marvel allows us to do our prototype online.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/BJM791yB2p4

We made a short video to describe about the prototype application that we have created. We uploaded the video on YouTube and we pasted the link here.

Data & Resources

Alina.bolton, Sam Bocetta. “Coronavirus and Cybersecurity.” GlobalSign GMO Internet, Inc., 20 Mar. 2020, www.globalsign.com/en/blog/coronavirus-and-cybersecurity-3-essential-precautions [22 May 2020]

Ayisy,Yusof . “MCO Extension Likely, but with More Lenient Restrictions: New Straits Times.” NST Online, New Straits Times, 6 Apr. 2020, www.nst.com.my/business/2020/04/581489/mco-extension-likely-more-lenient-restrictions [22 May 2020]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.“People Who Are at Higher Risk for Severe Illness.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 14 May 2020, www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-at-higher-risk.html [22 May 2020]

Duux.“The Effects of Temperature and Humidity on COVID-19 Corona Virus - Duux: Designed for Better Air.” , 17 Mar. 2020, duux.com/en/the-effects-of-temperature-and-humidity-on-covid-19-corona-virus/ [17 May 2020]

Hassan,Vally. “Why Are Older People More at Risk of Coronavirus?” The Conversation, 7 May 2020, theconversation.com/why-are-older-people-more-at-risk-of-coronavirus-133770 [20 May 2020]

Human Rights Watch. “Malaysia: Stop Jailing Covid-19 Lockdown Violators.” Human Rights Watch, 27 Apr. 2020, www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/26/malaysia-stop-jailing-covid-19-lockdown-violators [22 May 2020]

Jason Clause. “Cyber Security Roles and Responsibilities.” The Jason Clause Show, 2 Apr. 2020, www.jasonclause.com/cyber-security-roles-responsibilities/ [22 May 2020]

Mary,Shacklett. “10 Ease-of-Use Considerations for Building Topnotch Apps.” TechRepublic, TechRepublic, 27 Oct. 2015, www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-ease-of-use-considerations-for-building-topnotch-apps/ [22 May 2020]

NASA. “Covid-19 Data Pathfinder.”  EARTHDATA, May 29. 2020. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/covid-19 [31 May 2010]

NASA. “Health and Air Quality Data Pathfinder.” EARTHDATA,  May 15. 2020. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/health-and-air-quality-data-pathfinder [31 May 2020]

Open Government Portal. “Health and safety.” Government of Canada. Available at:  https://search.open.canada.ca/en/od/?od-search-subjects=Health%20and%20Safety&_ga=2.175944550.515992444.1590926271-1914848389.1590926271 [31 Mar 2020]

Open Government Portal. “Science and Technology.” Government of Canada. Available at: https://search.open.canada.ca/en/od/?od-search-subjects=Science%20and%20Technology&_ga=2.175824614.515992444.1590926271-1914848389.1590926271 [31 Mar 2020]

Samsung.“What Does the Heart Rate Sensor Measure?” Samsung Electronics America, 30 March 2019, www.samsung.com/us/heartratesensor/ [19 May 2020]

Zarkov, Georgi. “Can a Smartphone Measure Temperature like a Thermometer?” Phone Arena, PhoneArena, 17 Jan. 2020, www.phonearena.com/news/can-smartphone-take-temperature_id121600 [17 May 2020]

Tags
#safescape #healthiswealth #coronavirusoutbreak #healthcare
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.