TapSafe

Inspiration

Being women we have always faced some kind of harassment or have been in any inappropriate situation where we needed some help. Therefore, we came up with the idea of creating a platform for women to get immediate help in this kind of situation.

What it does

-It allows women to first find the safest route to their destination and help in tracking. -It enables the SOS system by quickly clicking the power button 3 times which would automatically send her live location, help message, and also some pictures and short video recordings to her loved ones as proof. -It has a news feed option where you can write your experience that you had gone through so that other users can be alert. You can also share the images saved on your phone during the incident to alert others.

How I built it

We have built a prototype using Figma which is the functionalities that TapSafe is providing.

Challenges I ran into

The challenge for us was to add a recording feature that will start the recording(when the phone is on the lock screen) at the time of the incident. It needs to work in a way that nobody knows that the phone is actually recording everything because it started recording when the phone was on the lock screen.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Building an app that is responsible for the safety of the users and ensures that the app will help them in emergencies is a lot of responsibility on the app and the developers as well. An app like this can be very complex handling so many different user responses at the same time but we're proud to actually cater to the challenges and come up with these features in our application. -Real-time updates. -Works on all mobile networks. -Works on virtually all smartphones with GPS in them, which almost all smartphones already do.

What I learned

What's next for TapSafe

We'll be coming up with a fully functional app with some additional features such as: -Involving law enforcement so that your emergency contacts, as well as the local security authorities, will be notified that you are possibly in an emergency along with exact GPS coordinates. The location of the emergency will be shared by the police/authority admin with the security officer nearest to the emergency location. -Tracking option where your loved ones can also track you when you are traveling.