Fortitiude

Main inspiration for the app was based on the main sponsor. Infotech is used to develop many roads and roadways so I wanted to use a technology that was around those infrastructures. Because Amber Alerts are just so easily dismissible due to the fact that not many people have an ease of use when seeing the alert, I decided to make an app that allowed information to be spread using targeted license plates. The user when seeing a suspicious license plate would enter it in the fortitude app and the fortitude app would then use an API to check a registry of license plates and see if they matched up. If a positive ID was made meaning the license plate was on linked to an Amber Alert crime. Fortitude would upload the user's location and using the existing gps tracking on their phone and use cameras and other road side technology to track the vehicle using license plate recognizing software. Fortitude would also communicate this location with police and other authorities.The main front end of the app was built on code.org using their ui interface and the front end code was written in javascript. This being my first hackathon and not understanding how crucial a team was was my main problem. I heavily underestimated the amount of work and time a hackathon would take even for a simple project let alone a more complex project that would use multiple APIs to gain information and communicate that with other programs and apps. One of the accomplishments I'm proud of was being able to come up with at least a front end app and enough code to make it at least a click through. I was able to learn about apis and using them to pull information from databases at already taken from. If I had more time I would want to see if using cameras at toll booths to allow better tracking and supervision of suspicious cars.

Built With

• code.org
• javascript