DeviceSafe

The inspiration behind DeviceSafe is extremely simple, yet very important. In a day and age where technology knowledge is vital, it is necessary to foster positive device experiences for users of all ages. DeviceSafe has a dual purpose, it is a great storage app to keep track all of your household devices and it provides device specific walk throughs to keep all your devices user appropriate.

DeviceSafe is comprised of 4 main architecture components. First, a SQl Server 2012 database used to house the device and family member data. Second, an Restful Web API/Data layer utilizing the MVC 5 Web API and Code First Entity Framework. Third, a Native Mobile UI available for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile that was built using IBM’s Kinetise Saas tool. Lastly, a MVC 5 Website used to add additional administration options for adding devices to the DeviceSafe library. Our primary challenges arose from a lack of experience with the Kinetise saas Mobile UI tool. Learning how to gather and manage data through the tool was definitely challenging at times. However, these challenges led to one of our greatest accomplishments: creating a functioning native mobile application to solve a very real problem in under 24 hours. We also created and hosted a website to provide information about the product and a twitter account which, in only 17 hours, already has 29 followers! The next phase for DeviceSafe includes adding additional functionality such as tracking family member’s locations, adding more devices and restriction instructions, and expanding the safety education components of the application.