ResQTech Aid

Inspiration

We believe that first Aid is not known enough by everyone. We also know that most people have access to a smartphone but the action of looking at what to do in a specific situation would waste significant time in a situation where time can be a major decider between life and death.

What it does

Our application is mainly aimed at informing about different first aid situations: CPR, Stroke, Poisoning , Wounds, Concussion, Heart Attack and Allergic Reactions. We also have a button that will find the nearest hospital to the current user's position and a button that calls the first responders. Furthermore, a scan section in the app that was not fully implemented was aimed at detecting wounds and strokes and provide the adequate bandage size for each wound.

How we built it

We mainly built our app using Android Studio and Java.

Challenges we ran into

We mainly ran into challenges in the machine learning part of the project, some datasets were hard to find and most of them were not free. The use of API's was also not cheap and limited the amount of features we could implement.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have built an Android Application in such a short span of time, we are also proud of some of the features we implemented such as find the nearest hospital button.

What we learned

We learned a lot about Android Development and how to use Git and Github since we needed it to work on the same project.

What's next for ResQTech Aid

We would like to implement 2 different sides to the application, one side would be a first responder's side which would have several new features such as a video call so the paramedics know in advance what they are working with. We would also want to improve the location of potential victims using a feature similar to "find my iphone". This feature would also be able to provide the floor if the victim is in a building and could save a significant amount of time especially if the person administrating first aid is alone and can't find someone around to wait and redirect the ambulance. The other side of the application would be a user side that would be able to go on a video call with the paramedics, transmit their location in real time. Another feature for the users would be a display of the position of each patient in the ER queue to provide a better estimate of their waiting time and give more tranparency in a moment of great vulnerability.