Beacon Caller

You hear about a storm headed towards you, so you equip you and your family with a a Beacon Caller. It was affordable, reliable and allows first responders to find you or your loved ones.

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Inspiration

There's a lot of natural disaster around the world and because the rise in climate change these disaster would only worsen. We created the Beacon Caller because we wanted to challenge ourselves and create a tool for families and rescuers can find each other and be saved.

What it does

Our Beacon Caller sends out a signal to help both emergency services and family within both populated and rural locations find you. With the addition of a heart monitor and its ability to recognize your individualized ID

How we built it

We used multiple key components such as two ESP, an LCD, and a serial heart monitor. Using NJIT's Maker's Space we used all the resources allowed to us like 3D printers to help bring this project to life.

Challenges we ran into

We have ran into multiple challenges during the timespan of this make. We had so many troubles with finding the right approach to downsize our device. To properly downsize we had to weigh if we wanted functionality over size. And after many different changes to our design we chose functionality.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that during our first ever Hackathon we completed a product, learned lots of new skills and troubleshooted our product together as a team. We were also extremely proud of integrating all the parts together in a meaningful and unique way that can actually assist real people.

What we learned

As a team we learned the importance of asking for help not just from each other, but from volunteers and even our fellow hackers. Alongside this lesson we learned a significant amount of new skills, uses for different parts and techniques.

What's next for Beacon Caller

The Beacon Caller's next steps are to shrink down even more using a custom PCB, add more biometric capabilities, better sensors, and the more accurate readings of distance from other Beacon Callers. All these changes would elevate the Beacon Caller from the great product it already is to one that could genuinely be used to save lives.

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