Inspiration
The inspiration for our project was the KidsAbility prompt 1. While attending the firebase workshop we came up with the idea to incorporate the cloud service to give companies such as KidsAbility the means to acquire real time data on employees to ensure their safety.
What it does
Our project, Footprint, connects to firebase which records real time data sent from staff via Amazon Echo. It utilizes the Echo's voice recognition and AI technology to checkin and checkout staff, and send emergency alerts to employers
How we built it
Our program collects information from staff through Amazon Echo and sends that info to Firebase and is then pulled to the Footprint website.
Challenges we ran into
- Connecting Alexa to Firebase
- Learning to use firebase
- Finding up to date tutorial videos for developing Alexa skills
- No one on the team is familiar with Javascript the vast majority of the project is written in Javascript
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Learning Firebase
- Overall teamwork
What we learned
- Firebase
- We should try to work with platforms we are more familiar with when developing a project in such a short period of time
What's next for Footprint
- Authentication
- Connecting with
- Securing Database
- Voice Recognition
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