Smart Route

The safest way to your destination

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Inspiration

We wanted to create a mobile app that fulfilled State Farm's challenge requirement of getting more people to "Live Life Confidently". We also wanted to create something tangible that solves a problem State Farm customers face and have a working prototype for our presentation.

What it does

Smart Route is a mobile (Android/iOS) app that displays the safest route to any location. Within the app, you enter a "to" and "from" destination and the safest route automatically gets displayed. The bottom portion of the app indicates a 0-5 (5 being the safest) rating system for temperature, wind speed, humidity, visibility, and weather to analyze the route's safety level.

How we built it

  • Dart

  • Flutter

  • Google Maps Direction API

  • Weather API

  • Adobe XD

Challenges we ran into

  • Flutter was very difficult to work with, both because we weren't familiar with it and because the documentation was sparse.

  • Calculating the geometry involved with polylines was challenging.

  • Dealing with such a large dataset (1GB) was quite difficult, as Dart cannot natively handle files that large.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Displaying several alternative routes on Google Maps in Flutter was difficult but rewarding.

  • We're also proud of creating icons and graphics to visualize road safety.

  • Helping to make drivers feel a little more safe, so that they can Live Life Confidently.

What we learned

  • How to use Flutter with Google Maps Directions API.

  • Using Weather APIs with HTTP requests

  • Parsing large amounts of CSV data (we explored Python, Javascript, and Java solutions and found that Python was the most effective)

What's next for Smart Route

  • Integration with State Farm's app

  • Advanced sorting functionalities

  • Discount incorporation

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