Initial Project Proposal

PREvent

Mingyu Zhang, Jay Feng, Joseph Wu, William Hwang

Background & Motivation

• Most (~50-60%) health problems originate from a person’s local environment (home, office, etc)
• Current health care system is poorly equipped to deal with issues outside the hospital or clinic
• Many issues with the local environment are simple to identify, straight forward to address
• Problem is, the local environment is generally not addressed in the health system

Concept

• Wear a few extra uncommon environmental sensors on the wrist or belt
• Collect sensor data + GPS
• Alert user upon spikes in local risk factors
• Build maps of temporal and spatial risk factors around the user’s location and paths

Example Scenarios

• Ventilation filters to your office wear down and start spewing unclean air
  • You find out right away
  • Otherwise, a routine maintenance make take several weeks/months to fix the problem
• Cyclotron in nearby UW medical center malfunctions and bathes campus in gamma rays

Competing Products

• Speck Home-based PM2.5 sensor
• SensorDrone Peripheral sensor expansion for phone
• Sensaris No data since 2013

Resources Needed

• Dust/large particulate matter sensor
• CO sensor
• UV sensor
• Radiation sensor
• Small particulate matter (PM10 & PM2.5) sensor
• Gaseous alcohol (i.e. breathalyzer) sensor
• Humidity sensor