Sleepy RTES TEAM| Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Awards & Nominations
Sleepy RTES TEAM has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool
Sleep controller
Summary
Based on NASA researches, the sleep quality has a big impact on people performance. That's why we decided to develop the system that is able to monitor biomedical data about sleeping man (heart rate, pressure etc) and information about environment (temperature, humidity etc) in real-time mode. Then this data can be sent to the specialists who can choose a suitable daily schedule and environmental conditions during sleep for every crew member and care for their health.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We have developed a working system that monitors the biomedical data of the crew and their sleep quality.
This is important because the quality of sleep greatly affects the productivity of a person, and this system will improve the quality of sleep of astronauts, as well as monitor their health.
Our system consists of the "parent" part connected to on-board computer via serial port (UART) and the "child" parts which collect data and send it to the "parent" via RF channels on requests from the "parent" part. Data processing is done by on-board computer so there are not strong hardware requirements for both sides, we need only embedded systems that are able to collect data and transceive it through radio channels.
We developed a desktop application that is able to process received data and build plots.
We want to make every astronaut well slept, healthy and high-perfomance.
How We Developed This Project
We decided to choose this challenge because we are interested in biomedical embedded systems and we are engineering students so we know what the lack of sleep is :D
Firstly we wanted to use STM32F429 microcontroller but one of coders isn't familliar with it, so we decided to switch to Arduino platform. So we used ArduinoIDE for writing C++ code, Arduino Uno boards with NRF24L01+ RF modules and heart rate sensor.
We had a mess with broken module so we spent some time to figure out this problem.
The participation in this challenge was really amazing and we've all learned something new.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We were inspired by NASA researches about biological clock misalignment and the ways that astronauts improve their sleep.
They taught us new things about sleep and we are going to use this knowledge in developing out system.
These researches are important for creating personal sleep schedules for every crew member.