Inspiration
Many people receive amber alerts on their phone and do not look for the car specified or forget to after a certain amount of time, so we thought a phone could help do that for us.
What it does
It scans license plates with a smartphone and checks if they're Amber alert plates, then automatically send a report to a server we made for the police if the plates match.
How we built it
We used Firebase to store data in the cloud (in this case, the license plate), Flutter to make it into an app, ML Kit (TensorFlow) to read license plates from the camera, web stuffs for a "police portal" web page to put plates into a database that the app can read.
Challenges we ran into
We tried quite a bit of different Google Cloud (Firebase) tech like messaging and cloud functions when we decided to just use realtime database to store data.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We tried out new technologies we haven't used and ended up with a finished project.
What we learned
We learned a lot about Firebase and ML Kit with Flutter.
What's next for Amber Alert Helper
Hopefully it is adopted into a community project because we believe this is a good project to help the community and it would be well worth it to make even if it helps just one family recover a loved one.
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