Pegasus - Space Apps Challenge

Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

Pegasus COVID-19

Summary

Pegasus is a virtual platform whose objective is to provide the necessary information obtained by investigating the environmental factors that affect the spread of the COVID-19, presenting it in an easy, dynamic and simple way.This includes an innovative tool that allows each user the possibility to make the best decisions when leaving home or when making quarantine management policies (countries, private institutions, schools), since these decisions can be crucial to prevent the spread and To stop infections, the The idea was to create a traffic light to indicate the level of spread in the day, providing prevention and safety measures, depending on the color of the traffic light.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project places emphasis on detecting the environmental factors of each individual, as well as the temperature, humidity of their region and thus giving them adequate information, so that they can decide on their own, whether to expose themselves to a scenario where it can be risky, or where it may be safer to leave home.

The solution we devised is a tool that is easily accessible, public and free for any citizen. A simple traffic light, which tells you red, better stay home, yellow, it is risky to go out or green you can go out without problems in a personal way for each user.

How We Developed This Project

In the face of the pandemic worldwide, local climatic conditions with low temperature; mild temperature range during the day, and low humidity, probably favor the transmission of Covid 19, for this reason people, institutions, and nations need to assess the situation and because of the risk of leaving their homes to spread the virus, this diagnosis could be used by governments to apply the correct public

Project Demo

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Project Code

https://github.com/jjgilces/Where-There-s-a-Link-There-s-a-Way

Data & Resources

[1] K. H. Chan, J. S. Malik Peiris, et al. The Effects of Temperature and Relative Humidity on the Viability of the SARS Coronavirus. Advances in Virology. Vol. 2011(Article ID 734690), 2011.

[2] WHO Health statistics:https://www.who.int/data/gho/publications/world-health-statistics

[3]WHO Releases:https://www.who.int/news-room/releases

[4]NASA Datasets Available in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/collaborate/cloud-optimized-geotiffs

[5]Coronavirus disease (COVID-19):https://www.unicef.org/

[6]How to Protect Yourself & Others : https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html

[7]Prepare Your Health: https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/prepareyourhealth/

{8]Cases in the U.S.: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

[9]Health Departments: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/index.html

[10]Understanding the Regulatory Terminology of Potential Preventions and Treatments for COVID-19: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/understanding-regulatory-terminology-potential-preventions-and-treatments-covid-19