TeamRACK_NoVacancy

Inspiration

To get some expert insight for this challenge, we talked to my friend who’s a Fairfax cop and he said one of the main places they find sex trafficking is at hotels. He thinks there are many incidents going unreported so we came up with a way to reduce the effort and discomfort required to report suspicious behavior.

What it does

A website app that makes it easy for hotel staff to report suspicious behavior in a more discreet and informative way than a phone call to the police.

The app has two main interfaces: on one end is a form that the hotel staff will log into to submit information that is sent as a report to the police. This way speaking on the phone is not required and can be performed easily at the front desk or on a phone while walking around the property. There is a hide feature to quickly cover up the screen if the phone is in danger of being viewed by potential criminals.

The other end is a dashboard for law enforcement with data aggregated from the reports and hotel security footage that has been analyzed for facial recognition against missing persons and wanted lists. An alert pops up when a new report is submitted as well as a call (or whatever would grab the police officers’ attention so they can go investigate). The dashboard allows the officers to view the entire report, sort and filter by date, time, location, etc.

It would also provide profile views of specific individuals mentioned in the reports or seen in hotel security footage, hotel profiles, map views of the reports, trends and insights based on analysis of the data from the reports.

Can be used by any hotel and any police force.

How we built it

Designed in Adobe XD, front end built in React, graphql API written in node.js, image recognition written in python

Challenges we ran into

We started off wanting to try a lot of new technologies and quickly learned some were not feasible.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a website where we can upload an image and use facial recognition that accurately matches against database images. We made a user-friendly form that will facilitate reporting important information about suspicious activities at hotels in a timely manner to law enforcement.

What we learned

How to use facial recognition.

What's next for TeamRACK_NoVacancy

Would be implemented with hotel sex trafficking reporting training, as such training is starting to be conducted in hotels in FL Video face recognition Desktop version of form Dashboard functionality: map with report locations, data analysis for trends, insights ability Sync with hotel security footage One way data can be used is to inform representatives of activity in their district in the hopes of putting in more legislation to combat sex trafficking

Built With

• graphql
• javascript
• opencv
• python
• react