Team Phantom wins the International Audience Award at Act In Space 2020

Team Phantom became the International Audience Award Winner and the National Overall Winner at the ActInSpace 2020, initiated by the National Centre for Space Studies in France along with the European Space Agency. ActInSpace is an international space entrepreneurial innovation contest that is bi-annually organized in over 100 cities on 5 continents.

For the contest, team Phantom developed a front-end user-ergonomic mobile and desktop application integrated with a deep convolutional neural network to detect and predict defined air quality parameters in order to help individuals, communities, and necessary authorities to take action against the deterioration of the air quality.

The winning team was comprised of four undergraduates, led by Nuwan Bandara (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) and the team members were Sahan Hettiarachchi (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka), Promod Fernando (Deakin University, Australia), and Kalanaka Samarasinghe (Deakin University, Australia).

The ideation pitch of the team could be found here along with the programmed implementation here.

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