Heat Hero

In a world way past the 1.5 degree goal and constant heat our app aims to provide an application for elderly people to manage their day while staying stay safe and healthy.

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Inspiration

With the possibility of global warming to accelerate to unseen levels of heat, we'd like to anticipate the worst case and help the most fragile part of our munich society with dealing with everyday life in a heated world.

What it does

Features include:

How we built it

Technology:

  • Frontend: React Native for cross-plattform mobile support
  • Backend: Spring Boot with MySQL for ease of use and scalability

Challenges we ran into

API calls, Learning new Frameworks, clear and concise communication, sleep, not leaking our passwords on git

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. Enduring through all challenges that we were confronted with, even though at times frustration was high.
  2. Learning a new framework
  3. finding a way to overlay an image/climate simulation on a map

What we learned

Maybe you should sleep after all

What's next for the app

Implementation of exciting features such as:

  • Protection:
    • integrating with smart watch for instand feedback
    • push notifications for warnings & expand on warning possibilities
    • sync dangourous times with actual weather apis
  • Knowledge acquisition:
    • talking to the scientists and implementing a lightweight low accuracy simulation for current weather conditions
    • implementing more water sources from different databases
  • Community participation
    • making public postings possible
    • syncing with the activity offer from the city of munich

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