Team ShockWave| Better Together

Awards & Nominations

Team ShockWave has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

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.

Ambulance UAV.

Summary

Ambulance UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is a fully autonomousaerial vehicle which can go anywhere by push of a button to serve first aid as well as medical treatment.It has been designed to secure dying patients by providing necessarymedical supports in tough situations where medical help can notreach immediately. It has the ability to get connected with more than15 satellites at the same time. It is completely user friendly. Therefore, no need to appoint a trained pilot to maintain the whole vehicle. The Ambulance UAV is consists of...a)A drone which can carry 8 KGs of payload.b)A chamber for blood bags.c)A Ventilator with built in screen and a camera.d)An Android application.

How We Addressed This Challenge

First of all, we have sorted out some problems regarding medical services and then we have tried to propose the

solutions through our project. We observed that hospitals which are situated in rural areas faces some troubles in...



  • maintaining access to quality health care services,
  • providing medicines or blood supply in time.
  • arranging emergency medical equipments etc.


Not only that, but also in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic situation many patients need ventilator immediately. and most of the hospitals have inadequate numbers of ventilators for them. Additionally, the ventilator system is a very expensive equipment.



We tried to solve 2 major problems..

(1) Inequality in terms of access to resources, poverty and locations - we bring them together. Where the city folks get help and rural locations don’t.

(2) Systematic issue has been an issue for very long time. We need to change the system, so we can provide personalized treatment to people in affected areas.



Innovative Sides:


Our aim was not to solve the problems only but also provide some features sothat it can be differentiated from similar products in the market. There are many innovative aspects in the project such as,



  • As the project is prepared for android app people are more likely to use it and it is very safe and easier.
  • Ambulance UAV is very light weight and does not equip much space. Therefore it is portable and can be stored in a small place.
  • The instruments used in the project does not require so much energy thus it saves energy.
  • The ventilator is cheaper than the existing ventilators in the market. So it saves money and time both.
How We Developed This Project

There were several problems which we tried to solve through our project Ambulance UAV. First of all, the main problem was to reach patients in rural areas. We proposed a drone for the ambulance that can easily fly from one place to another by following navigation system and it can reach to the destination within a few moments. It can be easily controlled by the central hospital Management.


Secondly, we prepared the drone with a capacity of 8 KGs of payload so that it can carry emergency medicines and blood bag as well. The chamber has the properties to keep the medicine within the specific temperature.


Thinking about the Covid-19 or dying patients we also prepared an emergency ventilator with built in screen and a camera. Which is android application based. Using this the doctor can monitor the condition of the patients and can give instruction through real time

video feed.


For the emergency ventilator part we prepared the BVM (Bag Valve Mask) system. An air chamber (or bag) and a patient connector constitute BVM. The patient connector consists of a patient

unidirectional valve, an expiratory port and a patient connection port. This latter is plugged to an interface, which can be either a mask or an endotracheal tube. An air volume is provided to the

patient when the servo squeezes the bag.



Tools we used…

  • Android Studio
  • Arduino IDE
  • Google Firebase
  • Auto CAD software
  • C# programming language
  • Java programming language
  • APM Flight Controller
  • Arduino
  • BVM system
  • Telemetry System
  • Node MCU (ESP8266)
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

To work with this problem we used A one Nasa’s Health approach data and Covid-19 data pathfinder from Nasa’s Earth Data.

Those data helps us a lot to get all the information about the main problems what people facing in rural areas. And then we tried to solve the problem through our project. Now it is easier to provide emergency medical help in remote areas through our device.

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#confront #hardware #bettertogether #uav #health
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.