Smart Emergency

Inspiration

The main inspiration was to make the cities smarter and safer for their citizens and to implement a 'smarter transportation infrastructure'. We know that when it comes to emergency rescues, even one second can save the life of a person currently fighting for it. And that's where we have decided to save tens of seconds or maybe minutes to help them.

What it does

It tracks the emergency vehicles and it activates the green lights on intersections based on their positions and routes to help them pass the intersections quickly, safely and fluently. This is a web application

How we built it

Our system consists of these modules:

Smart traffic lights running on Raspberry-pi with integrated algorithm and running server to process the requests for changing the lights which is built with Python

GPS application for Android and iOS as a replacement to GPS module in the vehicle, which is updating the current position of the vehicle which is built with Flutter and Firebase

Server responsible for storing the city areas, intersections, and calculating and creating a path for the emergency vehicles which is built with Java, Spring, Hibernate, Firebase, PostgreSQL, and Google APIs

Web application for the operational center for viewing the emergency vehicle's positions and creating paths for these vehicles which is built with React, Firebase, and Google APIs

Challenges we ran into

Figuring out how to integrate everything together

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to come up with a good solution for the hackathon "Smart Transportation Infrastructure"

What we learned

We have mainly learnt how to cooperate, deploy apps, how to create branching strategies, and how to design and connect many different modules together.