Pneuma - Space Apps Challenge

Pneuma | SDGs and COVID-19

SDGs and COVID-19

This challenge invites you to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by looking at the current and ongoing change in the monitoring indicators of the UN SDGs using Earth observation/remote sensing and global Earth system model-derived analysis products.

"Pneuma" (Mechanical ventilator + App)

Summary

Pneuma, is a medical device of Non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV), this can be easily replicated, has low cost, easy to carry, can be in the patient's house or hospital and is within the reach of Colombians in the emergency of COVID19. Additionally, we've created a space app that will serve to monitor the output variables of ANY mechanical ventilator, this app has (AI) to predict serious respiratory problems, GPS information to locate the closest patients or medical centres. Finally, we created a real-time monitoring website for predicting covid-19 patients aroun the world; the project website also contains general information about our team en project.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Through this project, we provide a solution that will help reduce the number of deaths from the virus and its impact on the Earth, using unique Earth observation data supplied by space agencies.

How We Developed This Project

There are several reasons that inspired us to select this challenge:

There are more than 26,000 infected and more than 900 deaths in our country.
Health centres don't have the amount of medical equipment necessary to attend to the emergency.
There are several makers of artificial respirators, but they don't have a software or an app for monitoring patients.
There are many patients infected with COVID-19 ,who is at rest inside their homes but don't have medical equipment or monitoring apps and when they arrive at the hospital, it's too late.

Our project has a medical and social focus, we want to support the sick, hospitals and communities that do not have access to the health system in the framework of the COVID19 emergency.

We use space agency data from (NASA, ESA, JAXA, CSA, CNES) in our project to get GPS information, number of infected and death, in order to create a prediction pattern of future deaths to estimate the possible number of respirators to be implemented.

To develop our project, we use different kind of tools:

Coding languages

Python
CSS3
HTML5
Javascript
JQuery
NodeJs
Scss

Hardware:

Medical components (valves, filters, pipes, ventilation circuit)
Electronic devices
Mechanical components

Software:

Editors: Visual Studio, Google Colab, Jupiter Notebook
Backend: Firebase, IBMCloud
FrontEnd: React Expo, HTML5, CSS.

Datasets

Nasa: Covid-19 Kaggle, Earth Data
ESA: Tropomi

Libraries

Panoply - to graph satellite data

Justification:

COVID-19 outbreak has created a harsh and but an avoidable drawback situation that has strongly affected every place around the world, particularly in the public and private Health Institutions, affecting more than four million people by the end of April 2020 worldwide and generating the death of thousands. In Colombia, the mortality has reached 950 deaths by today. As an unexpected condition, the outbreak has resulted harder to halt due to the lack of monitoring and timely diagnosis systems for acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) events, particularly for those suffering from some type of chronic disease, hypertension, diabetes or heart problems. Also, most health care institutions do not have enough space for harbouring the increasing amount of infected people, demonstrating a need for monitoring patients from a better-controlled environment. Therefore, our project intends to diminish the incidence and mortality generated by COVID-19 outbreak in Colombia by offering a fast and cheap real-time monitoring system that implements a non-invasive artificial ventilator and a Mobile Application that allows recording multiple physiological variables of a mechanical ventilator; The mobile application monitors the physiological variables of any ventilator, but in our solution, we have proposed the Pneuma ventilator, which is a non-invasive mechanical ventilator that we have developed and that is at TRL5 level, a low-cost and easy to manufacture in the Colombian territory and that is under the study of permits and certifications for its respective manufacture. It incorporates a monitoring test system that seeks to improve the timely diagnosis of events related to the COVID-19. Additionally, we are in the process of developing a mobile application based on React Native that is intended to read the critical physiological variables of the patients (such as pressure, breaths per minute, volume flow, inspiration and expiration rate, amongst others).