Development of Aedes-Entomological Predictive Analytical Dashboard Application

Nowadays, entomological surveillance is applied in every country around the world. The purpose of entomological surveillance is to monitor, control and prevent dengue outbreaks. In Malaysia, there is a local division that is responsible for conducting dengue surveillance operations which is known as the Entomology and Pest Unit (EPU) from the State Health Office of Ministry of Health. Because the procedures of predicting cryptic breeding sites and upcoming dengue outbreak locations are performed manually by entomologists from the EPU team, these procedures are exposed to human error and less accurate. Thus, it is critical to assist the EPU team especially the entomologists in performing these procedures. The project goal of developing Aedes-Entomological Predictive Analytic Dashboard (AePAD) application is to detect dengue outbreaks earlier, hence; helping the EPU team to perform better prevention and strategic control operations which can further enhance the existing dengue surveillance systems. The proposed AePAD application is a hybrid and cross-platform mobile application that provides four main features, which are: (i) automatic prediction of possible cryptic breeding sites of Aedes mosquitoes, (ii) automatic prediction of upcoming dengue outbreak locations, (iii) display of different dashboard view types (i.e. dengue cases, operation data, lab data) based on user preference and (iv) generate report based on the detailed analysis result. It is hoped that the proposed AePAD application will increase the productivity of EPU team in term of controlling and minimizing future dengue outbreaks.