Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
To Dark Futures
Summary
Light pollution is the use of light in the wrong place, in the wrong direction, in the wrong amount and at the wrong time.It damages natural balance , bio-diversity ,economy and human health.In addition artifical long days and artificial short nights ruins human life.We developed a device which measure light intensity and shows results as diagram.We used ESP8266 NodeMCU and LDR light sensor in our hardware part. Also unity, Adobe premier pro, 3th Party API and DJI GO4 are the programs that we used in software part.Thanks to this device people may realise that light pollution rates increased and then they can be more careful about usage of light.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Light pollution is not recognized problem and that's why people doesn't take prevention. Actually,it affects our lifes much more than we know.For example,light pollution is the reason of many animals death.Also it affects our biological clock and it makes our melatoni decrease . Based on these we aimed to decrease the rate of light pollution.As Arctrus we developed a device which is capable of measure the rate of light pollution of the area that device located. Our device takes the data of light pollution.After that,shows you that data as a graphic. Thanks to it, we can see how much energy that we are using for lightning and take prevention to leave better world for our next generation.As a result,there will be bright and healthy nights without light pollution with Arctrus.
How We Developed This Project
Unfortunately light pollution problem doesn't seem as important as air, water, soil pollution. Mostly people doesn't consider it as a problem though. Light pollution damages natural balance, human life and economy. As an example of human life, pineal body release melatoni hormone at night. It only works at dark. So artificial lights affects human body's balance negatively. If we don't find solutions to extereme light usage, in the future we are going to struggle with this harder than now. So humanity must gain consciousness about light pollution too.In our project we used C++ and Python coding languages Also ESP8266 NodeMCU and LDR light sensor are in our hardware part.In our software part, we used unity, Adobe premier pro, 3th Party API and DJI GO4.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
First of all, we read all information especially Nasa's searches about light pollution.
Then we get the data about rate of light pollution from Nasa's website and show that at our mobile app's map part.As a result,Nasa's searches helped us to visualize our project.