Future planners| Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Astrossist watch
Summary
To solve our chosen challenge (Sleep Shift Scheduling) we will develop a smartwatch that will provide a schedule that manages sleeping, nutrition, exercise, and many capabilities, such as tracking the exercises, calculating the astronauts' sleeping hours, following things related to the general health of the body through sensors that can measure blood pressure, oxygen percentage, the levels of vitamins in their bodies using special sensors..etc. Also, when the astronaut feels any symptoms, the watch will display the appropriate exercises, useful food, or appropriate treatment to solve this problem through doctors on the Earth's surface who will be connected with the smartwatch.
How We Addressed This Challenge
In our chosen challenge which is sleep shift scheduling tool from the category of sustain we need to come up with a tool that put a schedule that develops an operational sleep shift scheduling tool that provides autonomous customization of a schedule for sleep, exercise, and nutrition to manage fatigue. Because of the fatigue the astronauts’ performance in the work decrease so we have to solve the problems that affects their health causes fatigue. To achieve that goal and to solve this challenge we decided to make a smart watch with certain structure. Our watch will be capable of adapting an individual's sleep schedule with countermeasures to maintain circadian entrainment, provide exercise guidelines, and provide nutritional guidelines by having the ability to calculate the astronauts’ vital indicators beside the vitamins’ ratios in their bodies using special sensors in order to be able to put a schedule for them depending on their own health status. Also, it will have the ability to calculate how many hours they slept and if they need to take a nap beside determining the best time for sleeping and waking up depending on the science of sleep circles. Also, our watch will be equipped with all the kinds of countermeasure like sleeping medicines and the certain instructions that will help the astronauts to have good sleep like using red light lambs etc. when the astronaut feels any strange symptoms, the watch will display the appropriate exercises and useful food to solve that problem through the leaders and doctors on earth who control this watch. Our schedule will have the flexibility to be changed at any time depending on the astronaut’s work. Our watch will have the ability to save all the data and the schedules in order to make the scientists able to know what exactly happen the space in order to be able to develop their plans based on right information. The schedules that the watch will put will take in account the gender of the astronaut.
Our watch will be a good choice for NASA as it’s three tools in one because it will organize the three parts, sleeping, nutrition and exercise.
There are applications that provide workout regimens, including some with gender specific regimens and various workout categories; however, they do not provide the times of the day or duration of the exercise regimen. And our watch will work on achieving and covering the disadvantages of the already existed apps. Basically, our watch will try to put a schedule to manage the three departments and that will help in solving a lot of problems that face them in the space
Also, our watch is a good choice because of the low price comparing with its efficiency and the ease of being applicated beside its small size and good appearance.
Beside that, our watch will not only be suitable for astronauts in the space it also can be used by the usual people on earth who can’t organize their life and by the astronauts on earth to practice before going to the space
To make our project more advanced and to make our schedules more flexible we will use the artificial intelligence in order to make the watch able to make an adaption on the person it belongs to ,beside continually changes the responds as if it measured the blood pressure for example if it found that it’s between 80 and 100 it will give him instructions and certain type of food and if in the second day it found it in the same range it will change its responds
Another good point, our watch will take in account the gender of the astronaut because the schedule will differ depends on the gender for example in the space the female needs 1900 calories and the male need 3200 calories so that the menu and the amount of food will differ
How will our watch work?
The astronaut will need to enter some information manually like the Hight, the weight and the muscle mass which will be calculated by certain equation and other vital indicators and vitamins ratios will be calculated by the watch and the watch will put the schedule depending on the results
The watch will send them notifications about the right time for sleeping, waking up, naps, food times and types, exercise times and duration and types, daily instructions, medicines, etc.
The heart beat sensor will know when the astronaut waked up and the watch will calculate how many hours he slept.
We hope to achieve all the goals that NASA is looking for in this challenge and that what we have developed our smart watch for.
How We Developed This Project
What inspired us to choose this challenge is the importance of solving it besides our strong desire to provide the greatest assistance for NASA. Also, it was very enjoyable searching on this challenge and finding a solution for it. Our method, in short, depends on a lot and reliable research as it had a great role in finding the idea and sufficient information to implement it by adding to the continuous meetings and discussions about what we came up with in terms of ideas and information, which made us reach better adjustments continuously. Moreover, we benefited a lot from the experts' questions as they presented to us Many suggestions regarding the implementation of the idea. All this helped our idea to become what it is now. Implementing the idea will require the use of C programming languages as its codes are small in size to fit in the small Arduino in the watch besides using artificial intelligence languages like C++ and Java, and it will also need many hardware components such as ( watch face- OLED screen - led - Arduino- programming cable- ble 112- voltage regular- battery- strap- sensors for measuring heartbeat, blood pressure, etc...). the software that will be used is called Tizen. During our work, we faced a lot of problems like some of us have different opinions about the idea but when a situation like that happens, we try to use all the opinions to make a super idea. Also, one day we faced a problem in Arduinos and programming we went to a robotics center and asked for help and we learned too much from this experience. This competition taught us a lot as we learned how to work together, sharing ideas, use the C programming language and we knew a lot of things about living in the space. Also, we learned too much about artificial intelligence. We developed our writing, searching, and presentation skills And as a result of working together for a month on this project, we finally achieved the idea for our project which will help in solving our choosing challenge which is the smartwatch (Astrossist watch).
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We followed the EDP process during our work so after identifying the problem we started to search about it. Space agencies' data was a very important source of information. Because that the goal of our project is to make a scheduling tool organizing sleeping, nutrition, and exercise we need to use websites that show real life in the space, the real problems, how to solve it, and the new techniques. NASA website was the first source that we all used to be sure that we get credible information. By the time we needed more and more information. So, we started to search for new sources besides the NASA website. Then we find that other sources can help us like CSA, CNES, JAXA, life events for astronauts, PDFs, Videos, Articles, NASA eclipse, NASA Johnsen channel on YouTube, etc. for example, we found a PDF with the title Space food and nutrition published on NASA site. That helps us to know how food preparing for space flights, the number of vitamins and minerals they need. After our research in NASA and other websites that NASA made partnerships with, we collected a lot of data which are the data that we will use during programming the watch and we put them in 3 pdf files which will be provided at the demo part. The rest of the sources and sites that have been used will appear clearly in the list of sources.
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_RyYsRl5NBQFORTuxI5MIBPfS8aEMWTr?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
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