9 ideas which help overcome the pandemic crisis

At the Fix the crisis hackathon, young scientists, start-ups, and active youth have come up with ideas that will help overcome the pandemic crisis.

The Fix the crisis hackathon was conducted by an online platform for solving CASERS case studies.

The main task was to come up with innovative solutions that would be useful and would help to overcome the emergence or emergence of a coronavirus crisis in a country.

The hackathon brought together 500 participants and gathered 58 ideas, which were evaluated by an expert panel.

Dew Pocket is a device that creates a sanitizer, effective against 99.982% of germs, just out of water. The device can solve the problem of shortages of sanitizers in the current environment.

Dew Pocket was developed by a team of scientists: two graduate students and two representatives of the II Mechnikov Institute of Microbiology and Immunology. They worked on silver water disinfection technology and managed to increase its efficiency by 16,000%. The technology was tested in the laboratory of the Mechnikov Institute, and now the team has a prototype device and is undergoing certification.

Express diagnosis of COVID-19 using a machine vision system

The group has already developed several machine vision systems that are used to recognize aircraft, vehicles, signs of cancer in living cells, and microscopic living organisms. The system can analyze the images obtained from the electron microscope and identify different types of viruses by optical means. This system will allow you to quickly process a large number of images and avoid the mistakes that can be caused by fatigue.

Reusable respirator

Disposable masks have a low protective capability and, in addition, become scarce. The team has developed a model of reusable respirator, in which after a certain period of wear there is an automated heat treatment, which allows not to change the filter. It will consist of layers of fabric that protect the filter material, layers of acetate fiber that filter and absorb the aerosol with the virus, as well as heating elements that disinfect the layers of acetate fiber.

RideNow App

The app allows you to search for travel companions in real-time across Ukraine and can help bring doctors to work. The search is automatic, allowing you to quickly and easily coordinate with doctors, volunteers and those who want to help. Author – Askold Klyus.

“Quarnuts” service

“Quarnuts” allows you to optimize the performance of the fast during emergencies. The team proposes to optimize hospital utilization by utilizing mobile paramedics and physician applications. On departure, a paramedic or ambulance driver fills in an express form stating the problem. The system processes the request and provides an address to the nearest hospital that can receive a patient with these symptoms, and the hospital issues a request that allows you to prepare in time for patient acceptance. This speeds up the communication and provision of services to the patient, and makes it impossible to forge acts and evade liability in the fatal cases caused by the actions of health workers, since the data is entered into the system.

Panda training bot

Because of the threat of a coronavirus, businesses are forced to transition to teleworking, and employees and management face new format issues. Panda training has developed a chatbot that, through coaching (an approach that helps people not with advice but questions that she answers herself), helps develop new employee habits, set up business processes and follow discipline. Psychologists and coaches have worked on the development of the chatbot, it can replace them and at the same time help many people form new habits for easier transition to remote work.

“Eye pass” service

Eye pass is a service for analyzing students’ behavior during distance learning. Eye Pass turns your webcam into an eye tracker. In this way, he determines that the person has read that he has scrolled through, to which his attention has been directed. The service also determines a person’s condition, such as their level of fatigue. With the help of the Eye pass, the teacher receives confirmation that the listener has actually worked out the materials, as well as learning process data that can help personalize the approaches. The service is now integrated with the Moodle distance learning platform and is looking for testing partners.

Monitoring the effectiveness of commercially available hand antiseptics

The team proposes to check the efficacy of hand antiseptics available in the Ukrainian market in a certified laboratory and report ineffective means through social networks. They have developed a quick algorithm to determine the effectiveness of a tool that allows you to test a new antiseptic in 3 days. The team has already tested 15 popular hand antiseptics in the lab and found that 20% of them do not meet the standards and cannot be used to prevent coronavirus.

A strategy to counter epidemiological situations

The team analyzed the best practices of other countries and developed comprehensive recommendations, including the establishment of an Emergency Headquarters (the team developed a structure) that would increase the speed of response to threats and improve control over the situation; and a proposal to add new features to the Kyiv Smart City system (informing the population at all levels and functionalities for coordinating volunteers) and distributing them to all cities.

Source: unian.ua