Safe route

Inspiration

The inspiration for Safe Route came from the increasing concerns about personal safety in urban environments. We aimed to create a tool that empowers users by providing safe navigation options while raising awareness of local crime statistics.

What it does

Safe Route is a mobile application that calculates the safest routes for users by avoiding high-crime areas, integrating real-time crime data, and providing emergency features such as an SOS button.

How we are planning to buid it

We developed Safe Route using React Native for cross-platform compatibility, integrated mapping services (e.g., Google Maps API) for navigation, and used static and real-time crime data to inform route calculations.

Challenges we ran into

Key challenges included managing and integrating diverse data sources, and balancing user experience with the complexity of data visualization.

What we learned

We learned about API integration, React Native development, asynchronous programming, scope management, iterative development, and effective team collaboration. we learned a few tech stacks

What's next for Safe Route

First, we plan to complete the project and enhance the app with advanced features such as user-customizable route preferences, real-time crime alerts, and a crowdsourced reporting system to improve community safety.

Built With

• express.js
• firebase
• google-maps
• mongodb
• mongodbatlas
• node.js
• react-native
• twilioapi