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SKY EYE

You can see it, You can solve it

Juan Jose Moreno

Daniel Arango

Juan Camilo Ospina

Luis Miguel Caicedo

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Our Team SKY EYE:

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The all-seeing eye: SKY EYE

Satellite images help to identify environmental phenomena occurring on the surface of the planet so that the proper measures can be taken. However, accessing and processing satellite data is often seen as inaccessible for the people who need it the most. SkyEye is a tiny replicable, affordable, and easy to use kit that allows connection to climatological satellites and enables users to access an AI system to process the data and detect climatological and/or landscape anomalies that may lead to accident prevention and detection of illegal activities in remote areas. Our main motivation is allowing communities to properly protect their territories from illegal activities and natural disasters.

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Sky Eye aims to create a service that helps communities in remote locations to detect climate anomalies and prevent catastrophes by creating a global network that receives data from many devices all around the world and sends signals about climate anomalies through a full interactive web site.

Image taken from: https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2022/10/02/how-climate-change-impacts-hurricanes-like-ian/

Image taken from: https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/climate-catastrophe-kenya/

OBJECTIVE

Climate anomalies are more frequent nowadays than ever. Most of them may not have a great impact in daily life but some of them can cause big damages which can be sometimes detected by satellites. Developed areas can detect them easily but there are communities located in remote areas that are not aware of this and can suffer from the consequences of climate anomalies.

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Space to Earth Connection

  • The SkyEye webapp receives and processes the data acquired by all users of the SkyEye kit. The webapp starts by processing the audio files using a python script (linked in the github) which converts .WAV files into satelital images and cleans the noise using open source libraries. The processed images are then passed into the trained AI model to be clustered and detect anomalies that may result in useful insights for all the users of the SkyEye. The idea is that the data collected is not only useful to those who collected it but to everyone in the open SkyEye community by sending alarms to people near anomalies.

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  • Although properly setting up all the infrastructure to manage the functionalities we want to include is out of the time scope of the challenge, we firmly believe that given the proper amount of time and hard work, SkyEye could help millions of people all around the world.

Image taken from: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:NOAA-M.jpg

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Connection Diagram

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The Future of SKYEYE

  • Powerful and constantly learning AI that updates everyday.
  • Full user manual that everyone can access to easily replicate their own SkyEye device.
  • Communicate data received by all SkyEye devices around the world to send warning signals to communities long in advance.
  • Mobile application to facilitate access to data to everyone.
  • Create easy-to-install kits to people so that everyone despite their knowledge of computing can have their own SkyEye.
  • Apply more advanced post-processing image techniques to aid image visualization, further cleaning of noise and delete telemetry inference.

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These are some of the future features we will implement on SKYEYE:

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Hackathon: Our Journey

This team was born from a university club in EAFIT in which we barely knew each other and this was also our very first competition, but we do not let any of these things be an impediment to give freedom to our imagination and curiosity.

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This challenge greatly inspired us since it combined a lot of the things we are passionate about and most important we felt this was the opportunity to put all our knowledge in community service.

Our main goal was to make SkyEye cheap and easy to replicate, we tested out our invention by travelling 40 minutes on the outskirts of Medellin and we worked very hard to make it easy to use for everyone.

We believe SkyEye will be a very useful invention for communities located in remote areas as it will provide them a low cost tool to detect climate anomalies and prevent catastrophes caused by strong rains, tornados, etc.