Hero

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  Demo 1

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  Demo 2

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  Demo 3

Inspiration

Our heart went out to the many individuals especially the most venerable in our society (women and children) who in this day and age are victims of social injustices such as rape, kidnappings, and abductions usually for human trafficking, political reasons or material gain. As young women (who are the most targeted victims) we desired to find a solution that helps safeguard individuals from these social menaces. And that is how our innovation Hero was born.

What it does

Our system Hero consists of a sensory device and application that the user interacts with. We used a device separated from the user’s phone, to capture unusual movement or behavior of the user, and send them a message asking if they are okay.
If the user does not respond to the message within a certain time period(which will be set by the user when they start using the app) a distress call/message is sent to the emergency responses and emergency contacts given to the system by the user

How we built it

We used a TinkerCad simulation of an Arduino board and a PIR movement sensor to capture the user's movement and connected it to a Python code that sends an email to a given account when unusual or distress behavior is detected. We designed the UI of the application using MarvelApp

Challenges we ran into

One of our hardest challenges was the link between the Arduino serial port with the python.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of that fact that we were able to think of and design a solution that helps fight some of the social injustices that many women and children face around the world. That we were also able to collaborate and work together as a team considering the fact that we were in different parts of the world.

What we learned

We learned how to ideate and narrow down to a solution that made sense to our users. We also learned how to use new software and tools such as Git and python through the various workshops hosted during the hackathon. We learned how to work remotely while collaborating on a project

What's next for Hero

In the near future, we would like to piece all the connections together to enable Hero to easily detect distress when the user is in danger. We also plan to better the emergency responses so that our users can get help in good time.

Built With

• arduino
• marvel
• python
• tinkercad