During our twelve week community health clinical placement at the Parkdale Food Centre (PFC), our student RN team contributed to the creation of a grassroots, evidence-based 10-week “Advocacy in Motion” (AIM) workshop series, aimed at equipping individuals living in poverty/food insecurity in Ottawa’s Hintonburg region with knowledge and skills to advocate for issues central to their lives. Interventions focused on community connection and capacity building for collective social justice action to create healthier, more equitable neighbourhoods in Ottawa, and beyond.
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Our project aimed to address the need for a robust 24/7 surveillance system employing two web cameras for real-time person detection and tracking. The client required a solution that could accurately monitor and log hourly and total detections, offering a comprehensive view of the surveillance environment.
Our team implemented HAAR cascade classifiers for upper body detection and KCF trackers for person tracking in the captured frames. The system not only logged detection counts for each camera but also maintained a timestamped Excel file, providing hourly and cumulative counts for efficient monitoring and analysis. The user-friendly interface displayed live feeds from both cameras, with detection counts updated every 30 minutes.
Throughout the development process, we encountered challenges related to detection accuracy, leading us to explore potential enhancements. We learned to balance the intricacies of computer vision techniques and real-world application, gaining insights into the dynamic nature of surveillance scenarios.
Incorporating user feedback and iterative testing, we refined the system to achieve optimal performance. While the current implementation serves as a foundational solution, we recognize the potential for further advancements. Future recommendations include exploring deep learning models for enhanced accuracy, integrating real-time alerts, and optimizing the system for diverse environmental conditions.
Our project represents a significant step toward an intelligent surveillance system, laying the groundwork for real-time monitoring applications. The combination of HAAR cascade classifiers and KCF trackers offers a versatile solution applicable in various scenarios. The project not only met the client’s requirements for continuous monitoring but also provided valuable insights for future enhancements.
Explore our interactive demo to experience the seamless integration of detection and tracking in a live surveillance environment. We invite you to witness the potential of our system in revolutionizing real-time monitoring, paving the way for advancements in surveillance technology.
Fostering Independence at The OAKs, involves diving into the lives and daily routines of residents at a Managed Alcohol Program at 1057 Merivale Rd in Ottawa. Following these individuals, the team was able to see “The Pour”, a medically regulated scheduled alcohol administration every hour on the half hour. We see the world of harm reduction working at its finest within the safe gated community of this program. Here we are able to see the sense of community, a safe place to sleep and 3 square meals a day eaten. Working alongside staff, the team of students were able to create opportunities for residents to find brain engaging recreational activities. These healthy forms of entertainment enables people to have the choice, thus, independence in a different aspect in their life. Using resources in the community, student facilitated activities, and utilizing resident preferences, the team was able to construct a poster with planned activities tailored to the needs of the residents.
We were contracted by Andrew McDonald of the First Peoples Innovation Centre (FPIC) to design a hide-and-seek game using micro:bits. These micro controllers are incredibly popular in the UK as an education tool, but has yet to make waves in North America. The coding for them is incredibly simple and easy to get into, while being affordable. With such a low barrier for entry, this game will be easy to set up and fun to play, and act as an inspiration for students to get into computer science. The goal of this project is to combine the educational aspect of a pop quiz with the fun aspect of running around and searching for things.
The game is simple. An instructor will perform the setup through our application; making the clues, writing the questions and their respective answers, and then loading those questions on to “beacon” micro:bits. They will then hide these beacons around the school/classroom. Next, they hand out “seeker” micro:bits to groups of students along with the list of questions and clues. Then the hunt begins! The students will use the clues to find a beacon. When the student gets within one meter of a beacon the seeker will light up. They can then press both buttons to request the question from the beacon. They scroll to what they think is the right answer, press both buttons to lock it in, and then the seeker tells them if they got the question correct. Then it’s off to find the next beacon.
One of the biggest challenges with this project was all of the radio functions. With several micro:bits all sending out various signals, we had a huge issue where they would sometimes pick up signals when they weren’t supposed to. For example, with our first prototype the beacons would constantly broadcast a signal giving away their location. Other beacons would interpret this as an incorrect answer to their question. We had to include all sorts of checks to make sure that only the right radio signals would be interpreted.
Our project presents an advanced computer lab reservation platform, meticulously crafted with Python and Django for robust backend functionality, while employing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a seamless and intuitive user interface. This system offers a comprehensive solution for managing and scheduling computer lab resources, ensuring an efficient and user-friendly booking experience. Designed to cater to educational and professional environments, it streamlines the process of lab allocation, thus optimizing the usage of technological resources.
Throughout this semester, our team had the privilege of collaborating with the Healthy Growth and Development team at Ottawa Public Health. Our project revolved around the conception and design of readily accessible and comprehensive resources in the form of Wiki pages. These resources were meticulously crafted to encompass a wide spectrum of essential information concerning the intricacies of housing in Ottawa. This included, but was not limited to, details on subsidized housing, housing benefits, the shelter system, and a collection of invaluable general information tailored to the needs of the OPH staff.
Our community health project is a health career fair for the students of All Saints Catholic High School in Kanata. The career fair took place on November 21st from 8:30-11:00, teachers would bring down their class and have 20 mins to allow the students to walk through the fair, about 300 students walked through. Our career fair had several occupations including Paramedic, Physician’s Assistant, Massage Therapist, Physiotherapist, Registered Nurse, Dental Hygienist, Nursing Students, SHSM Teachers, Laboratory Technologist, Medical Students, and Chiropractor. The students had a passport which required them to answer questions about the different careers regarding what they learned and what inspired them.
Our project’s end goal was to collect a minimum of 100 new volunteers aged 17-35 to join the Stem Cell Registry. To achieve this, we were tasked with setting up a booth in a high-traffic area at Algonquin Collage. In addition to our assigned tasks, we took the initiative to facilitate informational presentations to classes of nursing students.