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Alerting emergency contacts/authorities
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Active walk screen
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Setting walking route and directions
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Filter local safety features
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Scared mode
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Done Hacking :)
Inspiration
It’s simple. Our friends said they needed a way to feel safe walking at night in Gainesville. Existing options were FaceTiming a friend or calling the police. What if a friend were sleeping, or the situation was not serious enough to be a police call? Through our alarming system based on community safety scores, we want to get authorities on standby and messages sent out to emergency contacts based on how our user determines the severity of the situation.
What it does
ResQ (res-cue) is a virtual safety assistant and alarm. ResQ lists local safety features around UF's campus (Blue Phones, AEDs, SNAPs, etc.) for a quick reference, and allows for alerting of authorities and emergency contacts if the user does not respond in their walk alone.
How we built it
ResQ was built with React Native, Firebase, Google Maps + Cloud API, Twilio, and a strew of other APIs.
Challenges we ran into
The majority of the team has had no previous React Native experience. We also had a lot of dependency issues and multi-hour errors but managed to resolve them.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we can make our fellow students and friends feel safer walking the streets of Gainesville. We also take pride in taking an idea with an overwhelming societal benefit from conception to successful execution. After talking with our friends, especially female friends (that we may or may not have), we learned that an app like this could prevent robberies, assaults, and misdemeanors across our community.
What we learned
Technical: We learned how to resolve merge conflicts between 3+ people (oops), manage a development workflow, investigate API documentation, and work with deprecated projects that have limited (if any) documentation. Other: How to work as a team properly, the problems primarily female students face at night in sketchy areas, and how to solve those problems.
What's next for resQ
The biggest thing: more safety features! Some ideas we had:
- Integrating ridesharing services
- Providing algorithmic safety scores of location/walk
- Notifying authorities as 'standby' prior to incidents
- Providing blue phone locations, 24/7 safe locations, and other resources during walk.
We want to bring this to students on campus because students need a way to communicate their safety to authorities and emergency contacts when walking in Gainesville.
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