A team of ITC students and alumni have made it into the finals of the worldwide NASA Space Apps Challenge. The team took part in the Dutch contest, which was held in Noordwijk last weekend. Their ideas were appreciated greatly, as their idea SenseAir was awarded the people’s choice for innovation. The students will make a 30-second video pitch to convince the international jury of their innovative idea.
SenseAir
SenseAir is a mobile and web application that will provide near real time spatial information about the exposure to pollutants that users have in any part of the world. In addition, summary statistics of the user´s accumulated exposure over a long period of time and the user´s feedback on potential respiratory side effects are gathered. This information is fed into the web platform, which allows to analyze the relationship between pollution and health effects.
NASA Space App Challenge
The US space agency NASA holds regular activities for innovative and open-source (spatial) solutions. The 48-hour event Space App Challenge is one of them, in which engineers, coders, makers, artists and storytellers are invited to connect over mission-related challenges. Participants should form a multidisciplinary team, in which they develop either an app or platform to crowd-source information for comparing changes in environmental factors, create tools for public entry and grading of symptoms or create a platform for comparison of symptom map with NASA provided data, with visualization options for web and/or smart phone.
SenseAir team
The team that came up with the SenseAir is composed of 12 persons: one PhD candidate, an ITC alumni, a guest student from Delft and ITC students (both 2014-2016 and 2015-2017) from several programs (GFM, GEM, WREM). More information on their project on the website of the NASA Space Apps Challenge.
