INGENIOUS CODERS - Space Apps Challenge

INGENIOUS CODERS| Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool

Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool

Sleep loss and fatigue may lead to reduced performance and an increased risk to safety during many activities, including spaceflight. Your challenge is to develop an operational sleep shift scheduling tool that provides autonomous customization of a schedule for sleep, exercise, and nutrition to manage fatigue.

Circadian Rhythm Handler

Summary

Our Application is a combine tool for Sleep, Exercise and Nutrition. It contains bottom navigation for Sleep, Exercise and Nutrition and also Home and profile tab of Astronaut. For better sleep, we have provided ambient music and some books to read, here it also notifies astronaut about his/her sleep schedule. In Exercise, schedule of workout along with timer. In Nutrition, schedule will be given along with nutrient intake. We are aiming for connectivity between our app and some wearable technology such as smart shirt aka "Bio Monitor", wrist bands which will collect health data and give input to application.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Sleep loss, Circadian Desynchronization and work overload occurs to some extent for flight and ground crews prior to and during spaceflight mission. Ground evidences indicates that such risk factors may lead to performance impairment and short and long term health consequences. Circadian desynchrony has been observed during spaceflight ,it develops due to schedule constraint requiring non-24 operations or 'Slam-shifts' or due to insufficient or mis-timed light exposure.

So, to overcome this issue faced by Astronauts and ground crew members we have developed an Application named as "Circadian Rhythm Handler" on basic level which can be further expanded to tool which completely handles Circadian clock of Astronaut and crew members. Basically, the application controls the whole Biorhythm of Astronaut. We can combine the application with the wearable technology as well. It gives remainder about Exercise, Sleep, Diet as well as it also alerts about incomplete sleep, intake of various nutrients in food. If crew member is facing insomnia then the application provides some techniques such as he/she can hear ambient music or some army techniques(used to fall asleep) so that he/she will get some help to fall asleep.

The tool/application has lots of importance as it not only focuses on sleep but it also takes some crucial factors such as Workout regimens and food under consideration which has the main impact on Sleep of a individual. Also, as we talked earlier about performance, this is the most important factor as incomplete sleep can affect on Crew members performance which directly affects the performance of the mission. The missions are very important as they have to be finished during determined time ,as they can't be pre-pone or can't be post-pone.

We truly hope that the solution we have suggested will assist crew-member to keep their Circadian Rhythm. They are performing task in Space which is totally different and challenging workplace for a Human being. They are doing incredible job of serving for our Mother Earth and for our people. We hope to achieve balanced biorhythm of crew members to fully optimize their energy and intelligence for betterment of our World.

How We Developed This Project

Sleep is a vital physiological requisite for humans, needed for survival, needed for survival like air, water and food. Sleep loss, disruption of circadian rhythms, and work overload are critical fatigue-causing factors that can compromise safety and lead to increased errors and degraded performance and productivity. Sleep is a very important part of our daily routine and we had a thought that we can give some effective solution so that our Astronauts will get better or can say comfort sleep. At the end, success of the mission is without disturbing Astronaut's health is what what matters the most .

Firstly, we tried gather as many information as we can regarding Astronaut's Nutrition, Exercise, Workout Regimen, Sleep data, Work schedule. We tried to figure out what problems are faced by Astronauts during space flight, what are the factors that have adverse effect on their sleep schedule which indirectly results into Circadian rhythm disruption. We collected huge data and tried to work on problems the best we can.

We used JAVA and XML in our project as our coding languages and we used Android Studio to build our application.

We faced many difficulties while implementing our idea. We were not getting the desired outcome as we want but while working in a team we all gave our best and tried our way best to implement the knowledge we have. Time limit was one of the hurdle for us but we tried to implement maximum possible. As we all are undergraduate student, we are not much exposed to different tools , hardware and software. As a team, we would say our achievement is that we get exposed real world problems so that now we can try to suggest a solution also we got opportunity to participate in NASA's Space Apps Challenge and to compete on International Level also we got opportunity to show our skills and knowledge on International Platform. We gain lot of knowledge and that is what our achievement!

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We extensively used the resources provided for the challenge. We went through all the links provided as well we watched all the videos. We watched many videos regarding their work schedule, sleep schedule or how they sleep in spacecraft so as to get to know more about what are the problems they face in space and how that impact on their work routine and sleep routine.
We read article named "How Astronauts Improve Sleep" which gave us many inputs to consider in project.
We used NASA ISS FIT application information.
The "Bio Monitor" which is a smart shirt(Wearable technology) which has been designed to fit into an astronaut's daily routine aboard the International Space Station(ISS) inspired us to take into consideration between the connectivity of our Application and different wearable technology which help to monitor Crew member's health.