High-Level Project Summary
COVID mAPP is a mobile, user-friendly app that offers up-to-date COVID-19 risk status based on NASA's data regarding the topic. Alongside the user-provided information, covid mAPP gives personalized advice on COVID-19 prevention actions. These are important to increase social awareness and contribute to early COVID-19 cases detection.
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Detailed Project Description
The functionality of COVID mAPP is the following: when downloaded, the app asks the user to fill in a quick form that captures personal information (age, nationality, address, etc.), most importantly: their current health situation. covid mAPP works on a database with open data provided from multiple space agencies and has a Machine Learning model that analyses that information to predict which factors are highly related to the risk level of a specific area in the globe. That way, and with the information given by the user (including their location) to display a map with a graphic representation of the COVID-19 risk in the surroundings. What's more, it shows a set of illustrative cards with specific advice on which type of mask is best to use, the ideal social distance measurements, and which places would be recommended to avoid!
We developed our project using cloud computing-based technologies, Microsoft Azure, to be more precise. Azure offers a wide range of tools that were helpful for the app's creation:
- Databases: SQL Azure
- Data visualization: Power BI
- ML model: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
- Geolocalization: Azure Maps
- App design and prototype: PowerApps
We also took advantage of tools that are external to Microsoft Azure, like Figma, to illustrate the application's flow and functionality, and finally, Canva for the Demo presentation design.
Space Agency Data
- COVID Data Tracker: To analyze the total case and deaths in real-time, using databases to analyze the information in machine learning and using the prevention measurements to create a Health Protocol for users, for example, vaccinations, cases, and deaths of COVID-19 by state.
Hackathon Journey
We would describe our Space Apps Challenge experience as one full of discoverings: we discovered that collaborating with our unique skillset and working alongside each other helps materialize technology-based solutions that can be applied to real-life scenarios. Our real-life scenario for this hackathon was the COVID-19: Calculate the risk challenge. We chose this challenge because we believe that providing people with real-life information about the pandemic is key to reduce its spreading. To do so, we combined many technologies, such as databases, Machine Learning, cloud computing, and mobile app development. Working coordinately, these tools are able to deliver useful updates on the current global situation, and keep track of COVID-19 active cases, while using that data to determine how different factors (epidemiological, social, policy, and economic) influence the number of contagions. During our trip, we faced different challenges due to experimenting with new and innovative ways to build a solution. To keep going, we investigated as much as we could about how to attack those issues and how to correct them. We tried to always keep motivated by remembering our ultimate goal: to help our society during such difficult times.
We'd like to thank our families, mentors and people in the battlefront against COVID-19, for being our role models during this pandemic and demonstrating that together, we can go beyond the limits.
References
Tools applied: Power Bi PowerApp, Azure Maps, SQL Azure, Machine Learning, Canva, Figma
CDC. (2021) CDC COVID Data Tracker. Recovered from: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#state-level-covid-policy
Government of Canada. (2021) Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak update - Canada.ca Recovery from: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html?utm_campaign=hc-sc-phm-21-22&utm_medium=sem&utm_source=ggl&utm_content=ad-text-en&utm_term=coronaviruses&adv=2122-0008&id_campaign=12663296824&id_source=125900518968&id_content=511624188952&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5I3wmtew8gIVa21vBB00KglVEAAYASAAEgKl5_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#a1
Tags
#mobileapp #covid19 #covid #risk #ML #prevention #geologicalservice #app #cloud #COVID #covid
Global Judging
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