Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
Green Home - Fresh Air Fresh Life
Summary
Air pollution is a burning issue in the recent decades and has a toxicological impact on human health and environment. To minimise its adverse effects on human health, air purifying plants should be introduced indoors and outdoors. These plants are beneficial in patients with health conditions like Asthma, Emphysema and COPD. Hence it is mandatory to grow these plants in areas with high risk air pollution to increase the oxygen levels in the atmosphere.The solution is to provide an app that acts as a risk indicator in high pollution areas and the population in those areas will be informed through alert messages and suggestions to grow the indoor plants.
How I Addressed This Challenge
Air pollution has a serious toxic impact on human health and environment. It has a profound impact on human respiratory, cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric complications, eye irritation, skin diseases and long-term chronic diseases such as cancer. Hence to abide this serious scenario, air purifying plants are required to minimise air pollution.
In areas prone to high risk effects of air pollution, we should grow certain indoor and outdoor plants which require minimal maintenance.
The idea of this project is to develop an app which recognises areas with increased air pollution.
This app acts as a risk indicator in high pollution areas and population in those areas will be informed through alert messages.
MODIS measures the distribution of air pollution and specifically particulate matter across the country and its changes over time.
“Prevention is better than cure”,
(Eg:- Previously personal hygiene was followed by few people only, but during the Corona Pandemic increased attention given to personal hygiene due to the threat of infection.)
Annually a huge population was subjected to the ill effects of air pollution. To overcome this devastating effect increased oxygen levels in the atmosphere required. To meet this demand certain indoor and outdoor plants which act as air purifiers should be grown.
How I Developed This Project
We started collecting the air pollution data from NASA and other partners. Then analysed the data and created data visualizations to show how the Earth is suffering from the air pollution over the years.
It is a basic need for each living human being on the earth to have clean air. But in many countries, it is not possible because of the pollution. But this can be achieved by making the public by providing an app to show how easy it is to grow indoor plants in their own home to improve the air quality.
Growing indoor plants like Aloe Vera, Peace Lily, English Ivy, Areca Palm, Money plant, Rubber plant, Bamboo Palm, Snake plant, Spider plant, Weeping fig, Flamingo Lily, Chinese evergreen and Adiantum can reduce the air pollution indoors.
This app acts as a risk indicator in high pollution areas and the population in those areas will be informed through alert messages that mandatory growth of these plants is required.
Software: Tableau, Excel, Power Point, Windows 8
Hardware: HP Laptop
Tools: Shotcut, QuickTime Player, Paint
How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Air Pollution Data:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-nasa-is-helping-the-world-breathe-more-easily
Earth Atmospheric Data with pollution
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/M2I3NPASM_5.12.4/summary?keywords=M2I3NPASM
Also retrieved the Air Pollution data from the World Health Organization