How's My Farmer

Tracking farmers to ensure better working conditions

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Platform: Web (mobile optimized)

Executive Summary:

How’sMyFarmer is a web app optimised for Fitbit that monitors workers’ vital signs and location to automatically alert Crew Leaders of emergencies and insure policy compliance.

Design/Features:

Our client’s biggest issue that he needed Two Sigma to solve was that farmers were sometimes neglecting their own health by either coming to work under the influence of particular drugs or farmers were overworking themselves to earn more money. Systems that were in place to beat dehydration, such as convenient water stations and a buddy system, weren’t effective enough to combat this problem.

How’sMyFarmer is a web app optimised for Fitbit that monitors workers’ vital signs and location to automatically alert Crew Leaders of emergencies and insure policy compliance. HowsMyFarmer uses heart rate, pH levels, and location to determine emergencies; if a worker has an abnormally high heart rate, their Crew Leader is automatically notified with the abnormal data and the worker’s current location. Our solution will cost the client $165 per person who has a phone (which, according to the client, is about 90% of the farmers). During our Q&A session, the client told us that they use a buddy system. So as long as the 10% of farmers without a phone buddy up with someone who does, everyone will have access to a GPS signal.

Our design also faces a few challenges as well, however. Our app has no way of determining if a farmer is relieving him/herself in the fields. We believe that implementing this via fitbit would be intrusive to the person and unnecessarily difficult to implement. Since people wouldn’t actually be urinating in the bathrooms with the pH detectors attached, their pH won’t be detected. Additionally, data usage varies vastly across different devices. This makes it difficult to calculate the exact cost of GPS usage over time. Additionally, users may be paranoid about what their employer is doing with this GPS data and whether or not it may be tracking them outside of the property.

Deliverables

  1. Solve injury by dehydration, heat Put low-cost pH sensors in every porta pot. A healthy person’s pH levels are between 6.0 and 8.5. A dehydrated person will have a pH level of 6.0 or under. When the pH sensor is below a certain marker, it’ll notify the crew lead and also set off an alarm and the bathroom user will stay in place until the crew lead arrives Monitor heart rates via fitbits, which will notify the crew lead directly if someone’s heart rate is too high/too low and display their exact location on a live, interactive map. This will also detect if people are taking off their fitbits at any time Monitoring heart rates also gives the crew leader an opportunity to check for drug abuse from different amphetamines such as meth or crack. HowsMyFarmer also uses location to determine workers are taking regular breaks; if a worker hasn’t been to a water station in the last two hours, the Crew Leader is notified due to possible dehydration. The app also tracks how often the user goes to the bathroom via GPS, which lets us know if the farmer is hydrated or not. This may also help our client catch anyone who’s hungover; if someone is dehydrated, the crew lead can determine if it’s due to alcohol.
  2. Monitor a farmer’s vitals, location, as well as how many breaks he/she has taken Location will be displayed on a live, interactive map (similar to Google Maps) All farmers will be represented with a node, which will fluctuate from green to red depending on how healthy they are (calculated from heart rate and rips to water station/bathroom) The crew leader will immediately be notified if a farmer’s heart rate is above 170 bpm or below 30 bpm. A map with the farmer’s exact location will pop up, allowing the crew leader to locate the farmer instantly Each “emergency report” can be viewed by the farm leader. All emergency reports can be viewed by farm section or for the entire farm This information can also be passed onto OSHA so that they know exactly how and where these incidents are happening It can also help OSHA determine the effects of other factors, such as weather
  3. Display the average of all the farmers’ data in a desired section Includes health information and location
  4. LOW COST!! Each fitbit will only cost $150 and are water resistant The pH monitors will only cost $200 (would only need one for every 20 workers) and are extremely durable. The device is all inclusive so it comes ready to transmit data to our app. Total cost per person: $160.

Roles:

Christian Mejia: Team Lead/Project Manager (email: cm4080@nyu.edu)

  • Responsible for understanding the final user needs, creating documentation, and communicating with clients
  • Will present the final software to the judges

Chris Van Hoosier: Back-end developer

  • Responsible for making the functional product that is scalable and testable
  • Developed the functionality of Where'sMyFarmer

Gary Marin: UI Designer

  • Responsible for the visual design
  • Designed user interface on proto.io

Allen Fulmer: UX Designer

  • Building user stories (also knows as scenarios or storyboards), describing the user behavior during his interaction with the product.

Giovanny Castillo: Software Architecture

  • Responsible for planning how the app was built
  • Sketched out program architecture

Prototype

Link: https://pr.to/3UCRNX/

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