PERSONAL SAFETY ALERTZ APP π§π¨βπ©βπ§οΈπ
Bringing you the PERSONAL SAFETY ALERTZ APP to assure your loved ones about your safety.
Created on 13th December 2020
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PERSONAL SAFETY ALERTZ APP π§π¨βπ©βπ§οΈπ
Bringing you the PERSONAL SAFETY ALERTZ APP to assure your loved ones about your safety.
The problem PERSONAL SAFETY ALERTZ APP π§π¨βπ©βπ§οΈπ solves
Our app focuses on providing following functionalities:
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Instant message to close friends: Whenever the userβs battery drains below a certain limit(x%) our app automatically sends an SMS alert message to the trusted contacts specifying userβs text, battery % and a link to current location in Google Maps.
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Manual Alert: It is also possible to manually send an alert on just a single tap of the button, a pre-saved personalized text message along with the users current location will be sent directly as an SMS to the users trusted contacts.
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Emergency buttons: In the need of emergency, the user can now easily call the police, ambulance or fire brigade, by clicking on respective emergency buttons without any hassle of dialing the numbers.
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Offline availability: No need for the internet to alert your trusted ones as the app tracks the userβs current location via GPS as well as their battery percentage.
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Simplicity: We have kept GUI of the app as simple as possible so that people of all age groups will find it easy to use this app.
Future Scope:
If the project is accepted by the government, we can create a login for every user by Adhar Card/ Mobile No. and scale up the database to keep records all the Emergency alerts people sent or when they dialed a national helpline.
This data can be used for further analysis to find the crime rates or accident rates region wise in a state/ country.
So it would help the government know that which areas in our state/country need strict CCTV surveillance and police patroling.
This would help reduce crime/ accident rates in our state/country.
Challenges we ran into
- We were facing Dashboard and MainActivity Conflicts. So we overcame this problem by making a few changes in AndroidManifest.xml File.
- Our app was crashing whenever we saved less than 3 contacts. So we overcame it by adding some if-else conditions, now we can add minimum 1 and maximum 3 contacts.
Note:
- Before testing the app please make sure you have given all the permissions it requires from your mobile Settings.
- In the emergency dial we have added our own numbers for police, ambulance and fire brigade.
Technologies used