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CARE Project

Global Nominee

CARE Project received a Global Nomination.

THE CHALLENGE: Aircheck
Earth

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.

Explanation

CARE project is an open­source API (Application Programming Interface) that crowdsources environmental data such as CO2 concentration, air quality and pollen counts from existing data sources in order to unify them and make them available to any other navigation or transport application like Waze, Citymapper or Google Maps.

These applications can easily interface with CARE API by providing a list of waypoints. Then the API returns a set of available nearby environmental indicators. These apps can subsequently highlight healthy pathways. CARE API offers data about our short and long-term impact on the environment, depending on our choices, at the individual scale but also for the whole community.

Our goal is to preserve people's health against respiratory diseases by informing them on environmental conditions and thus reduce their impact on the environment. Instead of creating another transport application, CARE API makes it possible to develop a pluggable solution.

We also made a CARE App to illustrate our idea. It gives path recommendations and triggers notifications according to the user's health profile in order to avoid potential threats. Moreover, each user can contribute and improve CARE database thanks to a crowdsourcing feedback module.

Finally, CARE is an open source system that helps people to be aware of their impact on the environment and the irreversible dangers on their health. Everybody is a part of an active community and is the witness of the effective changes.

During the two-­day hackathon, three developers of our team built a functional API using our city data (Lyon, France) and were able to query our API with an itinerary to get geodata. We also built CARE App, an Android-­ and iOS­-ready web application, featuring state-of-the-art user interactions and we are still developing a demo version of our project.


CARE Project on Github

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