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The project qAIRa, initiative that started in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), presents the concept of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as Drones, for air quality monitoring and air contamination mapping. Air is the planet¿s most valuable resource and is nowadays being threatened by the high levels of contamination around the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Air contamination causes 1 in 10 deaths, which translates each year in the deceases of 7 million people globally. qAIRa develops and implements drones with sensing technology to monitor the quality of the air in order to analyze and prevent environmental contamination from the major industries and protect people¿s health by keeping the level of contaminants emissions under the limits proposed by the regulation agencies. This project aims to use big data analytics and robotics to digitize and democratize air quality information as a real-time global contamination map.
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According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) cause more deaths than all cancers, HIV and malaria combined; 17.5 million people die each year from CVDs, this represents 31% of all deaths globally. This is even more detrimental for women, 3 of 8 because 1 in every 3 women in the United States suffer from CVDs. These ailments could be prevented if detected sooner, in order to be monitored and acted upon to optimize health. Research of technology to make day-to-day clothes intelligent in order to prevent several diseases is in current development. This research project proposes a non-invasive method to monitor cardiac and respiratory health parameters (such as heart rate, electrocardiogram, respiratory rate and others) through the development of flexible and printed circuit boards resistant to water with sensors (such as electrodes, piezo resistive fabric, temperature sensor, accelerometers and others) located inside a brassiere. This information can be used to determine abnormalities in heart rhythm, size of the heart chambers or damage to the heart muscle, associated with CVDs. The current solutions to monitor health are wearables and chips that are injected inside the body. The problem with wearables is that they are not daily life objects; on the other side, chips that go into an individual's body are far too invasive and expensive.
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