Pebble-Emergency-App

Inspiration

Our inspiration came from one of our team members who got held up at gun point for a cellphone. Then we came up with Emer_App, your personal safety application.

How it works

Mer_App works with the flip of the wrist. This application allows users to instantaneously alert contacts and first responders in the line of assault and emergency. This application sends a distress signal and the location of the user to select contacts and/or first response services. Activations of the application will allow specific choices of emergency situations.

Challenges I ran into

There was a number of bugs that we worked around and fixed. The hardware limitations and capabilities of the Pebble Watch. Gesture recognition may be hindered by Pebble's accelerometer capabilities. The GPS triangulation accuracy was contingent upon the geolocation within the user's phone. The speed of the signal recognition is dependent upon network speed.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Accomplishments we achieved was fixing these bugs, and getting everything to work during the time frame as well as the features. Also been able to getting response from the web server to work and response. Finally using multiple Pebble Watches from the server to respond to the geolocation on the Google Map.

What I learned

My team learnt about real work problem solving skills, time management, communication and team work. We also learnt about coding on the cloud based Pebble SDK using C Programming and Javascript.

What's next for EMER_APP

Improvements will be made to EMER_APP by implementing a telephonic feature where the app will be able to able to call emergency contacts. Improvements will also be made during its development. We would also like to create a subscription package with security companies.