Ground Zero

Ground Zero: Your guide to staying safe and informing!

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Inspiration

Covid-19 threw limelight and did justice to the phrase "Health is not valued until sickness comes." Our primary inspiration to this project was our generations' ignorance towards health and well-being. On further thought we realized that "Prevention is better than cure", so we came up with "Ground Zero". Our idea revolves around locating disease hotspots not only during outbreaks, epidemics, etc. but also for certain communicable diseases which would otherwise prove to be lethal. Our goal is to create a safer and more precautious world for the generations to come.

What it does

Our website works with geospatial maps to deduce and locate potential hotspots. We would use various resources like GIS data, public health records, etc. to analyze possible hotspot locations. For eg:- If we face an outbreak similar to that of Covid-19, this website will help us predict which areas will relatively more vulnerable by considering factors like climatic conditions, population density, etc. How many diseases it can locate and predict for is yet to be determined as it has a lot of scope in that respect. We currently want to focus on making it efficient, reliable and user-friendly.

How we built it

We plan to build is by basing it of geospatial maps, data graphs, satellite imagery and past health records. We shall create a dynamic website which will take input from the user regarding the disease and maybe even the geographical sector to be analyzed. These we a huge database related to factors to be considered for the respective diseases. Lastly, it will be an open-source website and the backend will be based on that.

Challenges we ran into

There are multiple challenges that we faced during the whole process, like unavailability of required health and disease related data, inaccess to certain past records & inaccuracy of few existing GIS data. Other challenges included lack of knowledge with respect to extracting data from certain sources and the coding requirements that come with it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We believe in team spirit and are proud of successfully allocating tasks and distributing work well amongst us.

What we learned

We've learnt that area has a lot of scope. It is yet to be explored and a lot of development is possible. The extent of diseases out there is unbelievable. We as a community must work towards increasing our precautions and inculcating healthy habits. It is the need of the hour.

What's next for Ground Zero

Ground Zero has a lot of potential for future development.

  1. We plan to include features like real-time updation and alerts when you're about enter a hotspot.
  2. A personalized feature can be added which alerts only certain users with respect to their health. Eg:- An asthmatic person will be warned before entering a polluted area.
  3. Details of nearby medical facilities as well as pharmacies can be added on the maps along with displaying the hotspots.
  4. Professionally advised line of treatment for the infected.
  5. Latest news related to healthcare as well as updates on any events that are organized.
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