MonitAir

Air quality realtime display and ways you can contribute to improve health of environment

Data visualization all from different sources combined into a single index which is then passed onto the (supposedly) user friendly android app

Us:

- 5 Technology Geeks.
- All Software developers.

The Project:

- Mainly focused on minimalistic UI for visualization of data.
- We'll keep updating it with interesting and creative facts to give the user a "fun while learning" vibe.

Workflow:

- From the given data. We remove missing and out of range values (can maybe implement imputation techniques or the EM algo).
- A python script watches the current directory and processes newly added files which conform to its data formatting.
- All the pollutant data is then averaged over 24hr and then we calculate the air quality index based on "A formula that we'll update in the future".
- All of this is then updated in the folder watched by the php script. The previous data gets moved into a history log.
- API can deliver the latest 5 readings for a present location, latest 1 reading and all the readings by far in the history log(not optimized at all xD).

Future prospects:

- The Sentinel 5p has the exact targeted data needed for complete AQI calculation. Just need a script to get that data regularly and away we go.
- Redundant data can be eliminated easily for visualization purposes but for research we need to look at much more "Science" data.

TODO:

• ServerSIDE:

  • Scripts for realtime data fetch
  • Use aggregated features for insights
  • Use previous years data for today's predictions... LSTM
  • Use epa gov resources for more data
  • Add more formulae to get the most out of raw data
  • Clean the db monthly and dump history into a json
  • Add direct API calls for public data access
  • Switch to something "NOT sql"

• appSIDE:

  • Use flutter?
  • Decide a color theme
  • SMOOTHER UI, CANT STRESS ENUF
  • Dashboard with graphs, pie charts and animated metrics, look smexy
  • Tabbed UI alongwith the dashboard for history and live map
  • Improve the map dynamics and animations
  • In-app helpful tips and popups
  • Fetch tips from server? Better and flexible updation
  • Notification popups? might be annoying tho
  • Homescreen widget
  • If possible get data directly from NASA sats with models prebuilt into the app to make it standalone iwthout relying on or servers.