Inspiration
Natural Disasters are one of the main reason for human loss in our country. According to the World Risk Index, India is a danger country based on the number of disasters happening each year. Disasters can't be prevented but the number of loss in it can be reduced with increased efforts. DROME is an emergency app which allows a user to share his/her location during a disaster so that their location can be predicted and rescue teams can search those areas before so as to prevent more loss. A natural disaster affects the whole country and lots of people lose their loved ones. This effort is to reduce that pain with a dream to save every person trapped in a disaster someday.
What it does
A combination of an Android app and Webpage together helps in the process of rescue operations. Android app is for a user purpose. It has a simple UI to be easy for everyone. Since a disaster can't be predicted every time, thus the app tracks the location of a user and always save the last known location. In case the user is trapped in a disaster zone and has network connectivity, a broadcast message is sent to know whether he/she is safe or unsafe. The location is shared in the website which is designed specifically for authorized personnel only. They are shared with the last known location of people and the data of safe or unsafe zones received by users. This data can help rescue teams to look into areas which require immediate action to prevent loss of lives.
How we built it
--> Used Map SDK to detect the location of the user and store the Geo-Points in firebase. A Map Clustered is made to mark Green Zone and Red Zone. -->The web portal was designed using Node.js for the server side framework and bootstrap was used as the basic design template. We used the Firebase database to store and collect geolocation data of the users to track them using the MapMyIndia API.
Challenges we ran into
--> MapMyIndia Map Android SDK does not have documentation of every function that is present in the SDK, mostly it was trial and error. -->Map SDK misses common features as compared to the google map API like there is a limitation of overlay in map clusters. -->The most major difficulty we faced during the design of the web portal was the lack of properly explained documentations of the MapMyIndia API
Accomplishments that we're proud of
--> MapMyIndia API was new for us and we did a quite good in completing the task. --> Using the Azure Web Services for the first time.
What we learned
-->New Stacks and that sky is the limit for us.
What's next for Git_Init
No one can predict but hopefully great things only.
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