cov-ID

The only ID that will keep you safe.

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Inspiration

We got inspiration for cov-ID after, like everyone else, spent one year in lock down. When thinking of something an idea for yuHacks, we knew we wanted to create something that would lessen the effects of covid-19. After a lot of thought and wanting to avoid being too basic with our solution; we came up with cov-ID.

What it does

Our hack, cov-ID is a card and app duo. There are 2 sides to the app; the user side and service side. The user side allows everyone with a cov-ID card to see their recent test information (test result, test date, test location) and where they have scanned their cov-ID. The service side will be the people who scan the cov-ID, i.e restaurants scanning customer's cov-ID. With the app, scanning it they get the previously listed information and set restrictions on who are allowed in. I.e refusing those who do not take the vaccine, those that haven't been tested in x amount of days, and those who were recently tested positive but refusing to quarantine. This ultimately makes businesses and public places more safe and also people more comfortable to go outside as they can go to businesses who's restrictions they agree with.

How we built it

Hardware: NFC cards Front End: Android Studio and XML Back End: Java, Google Cloud's Google Maps API

Challenges we ran into

We ran into many challenges like compiling issues and not understanding each others code. In the end, it was all sorted and we were surprised that we weren't empty handed after 24 hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Increasing our coding knowledge and seeing what we can accomplish as a team and with the pressure of 24 hours.

What's next for cov-ID

There are many goals we see for cov-ID's future. However the most important one is obtaining NFC cards with chips in them so we can do much more technology wise for cov-ID. With such chips we could communicate with the cards and basically anything over the cloud!

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