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  HeatMap Dashboard

AntiPollen: The Barcelona Shield

Real-time, hyper-local pollen detection (sneeze-free)

Inspiration

This year's Sant Jordi was a near death experience; pollen was the absolute protagonist. So, we decided to build a shield for the citizens of Barcelona.

What it does

AntiPollen is a real-time, hyper-local pollen detecting mesh designed to keep your respiratory system (and your sanity) intact. By identifying hot pollen zones, the users can avoid them as well as itchy eyes.

How we built it

• Hardware: An Arduino mesh network deployed across key urban points.
• Brain: Each node runs a custom Edge AI model that analyses local particulate matter to distinguish between general dust and specific pollen concentrations.
• Interface: An intelligent dashboard that aggregates this distributed data into a heatmap.

Challenges we ran into

We couldn't get the vibro sensor, so, to mesure the wind, we had to rely on public APIs to provide that data for us!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our amazing ML model that we trained ourselves by getting and cathegorizing our own images of pollen.

What we learned

The Arduino is much more powerful than we anticipated, we learned a lot about how sensors and the Arduino ecosystem works.

What's next for AntiPollen

We are looking to scale our mesh to the most congested areas of Barcelona and integrate our API into popular navigation maps to offer allergy-friendly routing.

Built With

• arduino
• python
• react