Jarvis Sensor System [Space Apps 2016]

Develop an app or platform to crowd-source information for comparing changes in environmental factors, such as temperature, relative humidity, air pollution, with occurrence of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases. Create tools for public entry and grading of symptoms, including but not limited to cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, sneezing, nasal obstruction, itchy eyes; and geographic mapping of symptom frequency and intensity. Create a platform for comparison of symptom map with NASA provided data, with visualization options for web and/or smart phone.

The Jarvis Sensor System is an environmental quality sensor designed to protect against contamination from Martian dust through detection of particles.

Mars is the current frontier; although there is so much more to explore, we know it contains particles too small for the human lungs to filter. This same dust also poses concern for planetary contamination once space vehicles start making their way back to earth. To keep astronauts safe and Earth contamination free, we need to make sure technology is able to keep the vehicles and suits sterile.

The Jarvis Particle Sensor is a small and effective solution. Using IoT Technology provided by Intel’s Edison and Microsoft’s Azure, we were able to create a sensor that communicates particle readings in concentration to the Azure Cloud, where it was then processed by stream analytics close to real time. The data was projected on a GUI hosted on the Azure cloud network.

The vision is to eventually create cost effective, easily testable lightweight tubes with basalt rocks straight from Martian soil. 3D designs and testing can be prepared prior to Mars travel while rocks are being mined beforehand, ground finely, and then spun into a thread into a 3D printer ready for the astronaut to continue to use once landing on Mars. Once these sensors have collected particle samples, they can safely contain them at a lesser cost than bigger built facilities.

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The vision is to eventually create cost effective, easily testable lightweight tubes with basalt rocks straight from Martian soil. 3D designs and testing can be prepared prior to Mars travel while rocks are being mined beforehand, ground finely, and then spun into a thread into a 3D printer ready for the astronaut to continue to use once landing on Mars. Once these sensors have collected particle samples, they can safely contain them at a lesser cost than bigger built facilities.

A huge thank you to:

Microsoft Azure's Team for helping us set up and use Azure IoT Cloud

Hybrid Group for helping us with Cylon.js

Cross Campus for hosting

Paul Gip for the animation. Check out more of his work at paulgip.com

Cross Campus for hosting the event

Emily Sky for her creative insights and team photo!

Joe Brisbois for organizing NASA Space Apps Pasadena

Hardware: Intel Edison Board, dust/particle sensor, gas sensor, temperature/humidity sensor, LED light

Microsoft Azure: cloud hosted responsive web/mobile app and data

Software: Azure

Front-end: Angular.js, HTML and CSS