Purify - International Space Station (P-ISS)

Inspiration

Water must be treated as a scarce resource, so engineers have come up with ingenious solutions. Recently, NASA has achieved a major milestone of recycling 98% of their urine to water. This inspired us to create an application to optimize the usage of the station's water supply, considering several factors such as the weight, height, and age of astronauts and also the time it takes to recycle urine into water. This would eventually lead to being able to manage water efficiently and effectively, allowing astronauts to not over-consume water.

What it does

The application will take in user input and track the water intake based on several parameters of body physical factors. We will then use this data to predict when the astronaut will urinate and also process it to update how much water left can an astronaut drink in that particular day and how much water does the station has left.

How we built it

We developed the P-ISS app with Next.js for the front end and Flask for the back end. The app integrates data calculation to process user input regarding personal factors and activity levels.

Challenges we ran into

Space is the final frontier. Innovations in this field requires people to think outside of the box. Thus, one of the major challenges was creating a solution that was not limited to the confines of thinking based on earth life. Consequently, we had challenges on the ideation and settling on the idea of how should the application tackle a certain problem and deliver the creative solution while positioning itself within this hackathon's theme.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have built on the app prototype and get the fundamental idea on how will this app brings innovation forward while having the uniqueness of the brand itself.

What we learned

Throughout this project, we learned the importance of collaboration and outlining clear project goals and capacities in handling each own roles, which will contribute significantly to the project's efficiency.

What's next for P-ISS

Moving forward, we aim to refine our app based on user feedback and expand its functionality to include features like real-time hydration tracking and integration with wearable devices. We also aim to add more dependencies (beings that generate and consume water) other than astronauts, like animals and plants and manage their water consumption and generation based on the finite water available on the station.

Built With

• flask
• nextjs
• python
• sqlalchemy
• sqlite
• tailwind
• typescript