Desenvolvimento de aplicativo para monitoramento de ovitrampas na cidade Universitária no Recife

Abstract

The main goal in this work was developing a mobile app that aims to monitor ovitraps set around of Cidade Universitária do Recife. Fragmentation of environmental areas is causing insects, originally from those areas, to move to urban centers, resulting in damage for local human population. Nowadays more than half of the world’s population lives in areas where we can find Aedes aegypti. Aegypti is zika's, Dengues’s,Chikungunya’s and yellow fever main transmitter to human beings. This mosquito has a serious of behavioral characteristics from which controlling it becomes very difficult. However it is of extreme importance it’s control so that we can prevent the transmission of a series of diseases. The use of insecticide is the most used method as part of a sustainable control of mosquitoes, but it has some drawbacks for example the harm it causes to the environment and also to humans. From this, we find that essential oils present themselves as a valid alternative. We can draw this conclusion from their multiple biologic activities, great larvicide potential, and extreme volatility, which greatly impacts their ability to be released into the environment. To evaluate the results, extracted by researchers from IFPE/Campus Recife, from essential oils oviposition of different plants from the northeast region, field trials are being developed which use ovitraps set all around of Cidade Universitária do Recife. The development of a monitoring ovitrap app becomes will facilitate the access to crucial information such as; geographical location and the number of eggs collected. For the development of such app an initial research about mobile app development technologies was made. From the research, Ionic framework was chosen as it allows the development of hybrid apps reducing the need of multiple developments for different platforms while also checking all the requisites. Other technologies were also used for the development of some functionalities such as, Spring framework for the web services consumed by the app and google maps API to display the data collected into a map. The development of this app allowed for an easier and faster way of, not only monitoring the data collected about an ovitrap, but also giving access to a detailed log about previous ovitraps and their information.