SBIR-STTR Award

IST Research proposes the creation of the Disease Early Warning Sensor System. The IST Research Team will bring together considerable experience to bear on deploying technology in austere environments, developing android applications, hardening the android operating system, geospatial and temporal visualization of SMS based reporting and information collection, crowd-sourced data collections, and support to large scale HADR/SSTR operations. From the lessons learned through these experiences we will propose and end-to-end system that utilizes not only well trained medical and operational personnel equipped with smart phones but also the entire indigenous population as part of the information collection and dissemination chain.

Keywords:
Mobile, Medical, Health Related, Apps, Relief,

IST Research will research and design a feasible solution to data collection and analysis for numerous types of data, for a wide variety of purposes through Active and Passive monitoring.The ability to funnel multiple sources of datafrom human responses, to social media feeds, to publicly available data on the open, deep, and dark weband then quickly analyze and visualize results in one platform is key to managing and understanding the vast quantities of data that are perpetually being created.The overall objective of the project is to create an end-to-end system that provides the end user with a robust Data Collection Environment (DCE) allowing simultaneous active information campaigns with populations and passive monitoring of open internet and social media data to.The system will support the collection of information and direct communication with populations in austere environments, and augment data sets with information gleaned from internet sources.