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Prometeo
I worked on Prometeo as part of my Corporate Service Corps deployment with IBM. The project aims to protect firefighters during prescribed burns by monitoring the levels of toxic gases in their surroundings, and plotting them on a dashboard.
Our mission was to create an AI-based platform to monitor firefighter health and safety in real-time, and long-term. The solution has been named a top-five finalist in the Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge!
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Illustrations:Juanma García Escobar
Experience Design:Dina Tawil
Data Science:John Segrave-Daly
Development:Marco Rodríguez, Daniel Krook
Project Manager:Salomé Valero
From the Amazon to Indonesia, wildfires are occurring more frequently and in greater size and intensity. During a wildfire, firefighters provide critical aid to those at risk. But how do we ensure they stay safe in these conditions?
Prometeo was created to protect firefighters from the cumulative effect of the smoke and toxic substances that they inhale during wildfires.
Design Thinking workshops were conducted with firefighters and stakeholders to understand their needs, which mostly revolved around collecting data and displaying it transparently
After consolidating the features for the MVP, we fleshed out the sitemap for the command center's dashboard
The dashboard, reading values from the Prometeo sensor in real time, allows the command center to direct firefighters away from toxic fumes
The interfaces were built using IBM's Carbon Design System, with a few tweaks here and there to fit our users' needs.
Mobile screens of the app which pair with the Prometeo devices to display readings during a prescribed burn
The AI-based platform uses IoT devices to track firefighters’ exposure to the toxins around them, allowing them to be pulled from the field before their health is compromised.
Through field tests in 2020 and 2021, the technology has incorporated user feedback and anonymized data to tweak and improve the solution end to end
The project has since become open source and been renamed Pyrrha
Contact
hi@dinatawil.com
