Safecity app
Kapil Chandorikar
Android Java Python Django Firebase
Description
SafeCity is an Android application targeting smartphones using Android 5 and above. The aforementioned application was developed to fulfill the aim of addressing several safety and security issues faced by the citizens.
My role in developing the application mainly comprised of designing and coding the mobile application, managing integration with Firebase and setting up a local Django development server.
Technologies Used
- Firebase Authentication Server
- Firebase Real-time Database
- Firebase Storage
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
- Django development server
- firebase_admin
- pyrebase
- Android Maps Utility
- Google Maps API
- FusedLocation API
- Android AsyncTask
Checkout the code repository.
Features
- User can view all the hotspots on a map, where accidents frequently occur and plan his route beforehand.
- These insights will also help the officials to allocate more ambulances for the accident-prone areas, expedite immediate help, rectify the underlying causes and reroute the traffic.
- User can notify the concerned authorities about safety issues by uploading a photo, description of the issue and the location. Various obstructions like potholes, garbage spills, poles on roads, uprooted trees, cracks in public structures, etc can be reported through the medium.
- User can get his reported viral message verified from a domain expert and/or the government official and thus can ascertain whether the information being circulated through social media in the form of text/image/video or file is real or a fake.
- The user can receive emergency notifications for city crisis, road closures, election news, various schemes being implemented, health-related issues, etc on his smartphone.
- Alerts are sent to nearest police stations, hospitals, ambulance, fire brigade, and other government authorities in case of emergency. Saved address and the exact location, pinpointed by using the smartphone’s GPS service and the Network Provider, will be conveyed to the authorities.
- An efficacious way of governing is when the citizens actively take part in the decision making process. But collecting responses from a large population on a regular basis becomes tedious. The application tackles this issue by collecting responses for the polls posted by the admins or the government officials from the citizens. This helps to directly convey the needs of the citizens to the government, thus increasing proactive e-governance and generating data which can be analyzed for insights.
App Walkthrough - Video
Screenshots
Team Contributions
