Mahona

Inspiration

During the mid to late 19th century, the world was consumed by an evil against humanity, drugs. That was one major issue faced by our human community all around the world. Loss of life and property, and increase of crimes were a result of drug consumption. Governments invested tons of money in order to prevent such illicit activities, but it always found a way. Now even though drugs are used for treatment purpose, anything in excess in a curse to our human body. Our project Mahona is aimed at saving the life of people who are trying their way out of the drug addiction. When a person tries leaving drug addiction, it's harmful for the body to quit all at once. Therefore doctors continue giving drugs at a measured dosage in order to prevent withdrawal symptoms. We aim at making it better for the ones who have suffered the distress of drugs and want to be on their side by small acts.

What it does

Our hardware will monitor the pulse level of the patients who are under observation and through cloud computing will notify the doctor on an app about the whereabouts of the patient. The doctor on his/her screen will be able to simultaneously monitor multiple patients at once and will be notify incase of any unwanted health conditions experienced by the patient. If such undue circumstances arise, the patient will also be able to locate any nearby emergency facilities which he/she can visit immediately. Furthermore, the family members of the patient will also be aware of the advancements made by the patient. The patient can also converse with the doctor and learn about drug addiction in the FAQ section from reliable sources.

How we built it

Hardware was built using NodeMCU and programmed on Arduino IDE. The app has been designed through Adobe XD and made through Flutter. ThingSpeak is used as our cloud platform where we wrote a MATLAB script to filter the sensor data using a moving average filter to remove sensor noise.

Challenges we ran into

One of the major challenges we ran into was integrating the hardware with the software. The retrieval of pulse data was also another challenging experience since the sensor stopped working suddenly. We were restricted to the hardware we could get due to the pandemic. The app's backend couldn't be finished on time so we could only present the UI/UX.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of what we have learned along the way and being able to complete the hardware integration and testing. There are some bugs still left to be fixed in the phone application and certain features that are yet to be added, but overall we are proud of achieving out set goals.

What we learned

We have learned various software along the way which we otherwise wouldn't have tried if not for the hackathon. Proteus being one of them, Flutter development was also something new for us as a team. "Circuit simulation is more important than you think" - Our hardware engineer

What's next for Mahona

We plan on retrieving certain more human signals and run some sort of algorithm which can correlate those data and predict the condition of the patient and his duration of recovery.