{"id":15048,"date":"2016-07-07T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15048"},"modified":"2016-07-07T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:53:24","slug":"nine-year-old-wins-tech4good-prizes-with-a-raspberry-pi-asthma-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15048","title":{"rendered":"Nine year-old wins Tech4Good prizes with a Raspberry Pi asthma monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine year old Arnav Sharma\u00a0is the 2016 Tech4Good<\/a> Winner of Winners and the holder of the People’s Award following a ceremony at the BT Centre<\/a>. He won the prizes for his AsthmaPi Kit, a device to help parents of asthma suffers, and it all runs from a Raspberry Pi!<\/p>\n

Arnav studied the causes and effects of asthma and came up with the AsthmaPi which uses a\u00a0Raspberry Pi, a Sense Hat, an MQ-135 Gas Sensor, a Sharp Optical Dust Sensor and an Arduino Uno. It is programmed in Python and C++\u00a0and\u00a0triggers\u00a0email and SMS text message alerts to take medication and remind patients to go\u00a0for review visits. There is also an accompanying booklet which describes the condition and how to treat it. The sensors on the SenseHAT are used to measure temperature and humidity and the MQ gas sensor detects smoke, nitrogen compounds and host of other airborne triggers.<\/p>\n

See more about the project in Arnav’s video, below:<\/p>\n