Inspiration
The inspiration for this project stemmed from the challenges produced across the globe by the recent COVID-19 pandemic such as inventory shortages and strategic social distancing. We believe that these types of challenges can be tackled by improving community knowledge through the combined efforts of communities everywhere.
What it does
The Hyve app actively updates our Hyve intelligence center in real time by retrieving users inputted information on recognized challenges from ongoing events. This data is then used by the Hyve intelligence center to produce informative data visualizations through the use of Google's geo location API and data science techniques.
How I built it
We decided to build the Hyve app using Android Studio along with Firebase and Google's geo location API.
Challenges I ran into
Integration of Hyve with Alexa:
- Alexa developer console environment
- Learning Node.js
- Firebase database queries
- Google Dialogflow environment
Android Studio:
- Managing multiple dependencies throughout different phases of the project
- Finding suitable Kotlin libraries to use for data visualization and classification algorithms required a large effort in some cases as importing them often resulted in unsuccessful results.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Successfully having Google's geo location API communicate with Firebase in order to retrieve longitudinal and latitudinal data points.
What I learned
This year, we delved into new technologies and languages such as Android Studio, Firebase, Kotlin, and Node.js. We learned how to navigate and use
What's next for Hyve
- Addition of more events
- Optimizing database efficiency
- Refining cluster algorithms to produce more accurate results
- Further polishing of UI/UX design
Members
- Gonzalo Alvarado - Mittens#1685
- Bryan Cardenas - mahboii#3472
- Bryan Custodio - Chum#1909
- Oscar Colina - Oscar#4463
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