Life Source

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.

Team BUET Cipher’s project in this year’s NASA Spance Apps Challenge is Life Source, a solution to the problem- Aircheck. One of the major issues in today’s world is dealing with life threatening diseases that spread rapidly over a certain region of our planet. Often in these cases, by the time we can determine where the disease or virus will spread next, it is too late to take any preventive measures. Life Source aims to create a crowd sourcing platform for users to share symptoms of their illness in a simple and intuitive interface and synchronize this information with information from other users. They can also find out what might be causing these symptoms from the experience of nearby users. This information along with the location of the users can be used to show density of a disease or virus in a given location and a way to visualize or rather predict where it might spread to next. This project can benefit the medical community greatly by helping them understand how a disease is spreading, where to and to go further, what might be the cause of it.

The project was created with help from the following resources-

1. Android Operating system and software development kit
2. Firebase Cloud Servers (http://www.firebase.com/)
3. GeoFire Library (https://github.com/firebase/geofire-java)
4. NASA EOSDIS Open API