Smart Health Team - Space Apps Challenge

Smart Health Team| Better Together

Better Together

Your challenge is to create a tool, app, or resource that helps close a gap that causes people to experience inequality. This combination of humanity and technology should eliminate or lessen a systemic issue and educate the user so they can grow.

ٍSmart wheelchair and System for re-generation of nerve signals

Summary

One of the team members had a cousin who was injured in her spine. She lost her ability to move and her problem began to appear more when she went to school, where she was subjected to bullying, which led to a bout of severe depression, so her parents decided to remove her from education so we thought about solving this problem and achieving equality between healthy people and people with disabilities and helping paralyzed people live A normal life without anyone's help by designing a device that enables paralyzed patients to use their hands or feet by electrical stimulation. This device can be used as an auxiliary agent. Astronauts move their muscles in space and keep them from atrophying

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project achieves equality between the healthy and the handicapped by making quadriplegic patients able to move using electric chairs using brain signals and enabling paralysis patients to control their limbs using our device that generates electrical signals that pass through the nerve, which helps the patient to control a paralyzed organ can also be used this device In space where there is no gravity in space, astronauts do not move much, so they are at risk of developing muscle atrophy, so they can use our device to exercise muscles and maintain fitness

How We Developed This Project

Due to the inability of quadriplegic patients to use their limbs and thus inability to use the wheelchairs available in the market, we designed a device that is attached to any electric wheelchair and makes it work via brain signals where the patient places the EEG sensors on the brain and the signals are sent to the microcontroller It, in turn, analyzes the signals from the brain and identifies the signals responsible for moving the wheelchair in different directions

The device can also be used to help people with paralysis, as it generates electrical signals that enable the paralyzed person to control his paralyzed organs.

As it is known that one of the main causes of paralysis is the failure of the nerve signal to reach the nerve responsible for the organ, and our system receives the signals responsible for moving the hand, for example, and generates electrical signals through which the electrodes attached to the skin pass through it to the nerve And it reaches a signal of the nerve to the paralyzed organ that enables the patient to move it.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used NASA sources to see that brain signals can be used to control things and we also found that electric current can stimulate muscles to move and prevent their atrophy, which makes us believe that we can use the same technology to help paralyzed patients move.

We also found that some people suffer from racism because of their color or race, and also there are people who suffer from bullying because of their health condition, for example people with paralysis