Inspiration
This project was born out of the urgent need to address a rising threat in South Africa: the violent trend of criminals holding victims hostage and coercing them into transferring money using their banking apps or revealing their PINs. Traditional banking systems are not designed to differentiate between voluntary and forced transactions, leaving victims without a safe way to signal distress.
We were inspired to ask: What if there was a silent way to ask for help? That led to the concept of integrating a Panic PIN into mobile banking.
What it does
The app is a secure mobile banking platform with built-in duress detection. Its standout feature is a Panic PIN, a secondary login code that appears to function like a normal PIN, granting access to the app. However, behind the scenes, it silently:
- Triggers an internal alert
- Notifies private law enforcement like your Chubb security via calls.
- Sends location coordinates to law enforcements for efficiency.
- Also incorporates AI to capture the surroundings and sends to law enforcements
- Leaves no visual clues for the attacker
Users can still log in and navigate the app normally, minimizing suspicion, while protective actions are triggered silently in the background.
How we built it
Challenges we ran into
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Built With
- dashboard
- expo.io
- firebase
- react-native
- reactnavigation
- tailwindcss
- twilio
- typecript
- typed-code-react-navigation-for-screen-transitions-(login
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