Semester 1 2024 Miscellaneous
Cloud Connected Light Monitor
Description
Myopia - also known as near-sightedness - is one of the most widespread eye conditions affecting 34% of the global population and expected to affect almost 50% by 2050. The earlier myopia occurs in a child's life, the more likely it will develop into high myopia or extreme near-sightedness. To mitigate the progression of myopia in children, it is paramount to increase their daily exposure to bright light as well as their time spent outdoors. The recommendation is two hours of outdoor activity every day. However, as children spend most of their day at school while parents attend work, it can be challenging for parents to keep track of their child's time spent outdoors. Our main goal was two-fold. To help parents keep track of their children's outdoor time to help slow the progression of myopia and to help researchers gather valuable data to help in future research. We aim to offer a non-obtrusive, inexpensive, and behavioural solution to the parents who are concerned about near-sightedness in their children. Our second aim was to aid myopia researchers who want to collect data for insights into the myopia development process. We aim to contribute to myopia research by facilitating the data collection process. We developed the Neox Sens, a wearable light monitor prototype based on an Arduino. We aim to assist in understanding the correlation between light exposure patterns and myopia development in children. The collected data can be synchronised with a cloud database through a dedicated mobile phone application. This application allows parents to monitor and analyse their child's light exposure patterns. Additionally, researchers can create studies that parents can opt into, allowing researchers to access and analyse their data. Our hardware Neox Sens has the ability to measure different types and qualities of light, such as UV, lux, colour and colour temperature. It also has an in-built accelerometer to help us classify whether the child is outdoors or not. The mobile application Neox App is developed to complement our hardware and features visual representations of outdoor time. The app provides parents with clear insights into their child's light exposure without being there to watch over them. Additionally, the parents can sync their data to Neox Cloud. Furthermore, for the benefit of researchers, parents can choose to join a study and share anonymised data to help with ongoing research into myopia. Researchers can access data through a web interface Neox Lab, where they can choose to download data in a CSV format. Using the web interface, researchers are able to create and monitor ongoing studies. However, because we never collect or send any unique and personal fields from the users, researchers are never able to access anything that would cause ethical issues. We have developed a cross-function platform spanning multiple domains from the hardware to the cloud. We offer a comprehensive system for monitoring and analysing light patterns. Our project, Neox, aims to contribute to the efforts to slow the progression of myopia in children.
Team Members
Lucia Kim: Team Lead, App Developer, ML Engineer David Auna: Embedded Systems Developer, Web Developer Gabriel Lisaca: Server Lead Hrichik Sircar: App Lead Kevin Lu: Embedded Systems Lead, App Developer Lewis Choi: Web Lead
developed by Neox
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