Pecunia

Login Screen
Home
Card
echoAR card
echoAR American Express
Chatbot
Splitter
Expenses
Manage Expenses
Image-Text extractor for cards

Inspiration

Our goal was to create an app that can aid the usage of credit cards and debit cards for elderly people and make their daily transactions as easy as possible.

What it does

Pecunia provides the platform for elders to check and create their expenses easily. Our goal in doing this is to make sure that elderly people do not have the burden of remembering their expenses and can rather look at the app. They also have the option to use our image to text option where they can upload a picture of their credit/debit card and the values on the card would appear into a table that they can copy and paste into the respective websites that they are using. If they would like to refresh their memory of the functionalities of a credit/debit card, all they need is a QR code that we will provide, to navigate into the page they’ve chosen.

How We built it

The app is built on Flutter SDK, which makes it a cross-platform environment for both Android and iOS. For the back-end data management, Firebase and Cloud Firestore have been collaboratively used, and also along with the help of Firebase, we have integrated Google Sign-in feature with which users can get into the app without any sort of pre-sign up required. For the Augmented Reality experience we have used echoAR and Unity modeling integrated with Flutter using echoAR Flutter SDK. We have also used DialogFlow for creating an intelligent chatbot, and Firebase ML Vision for extracting text from images. For prototyping the entire app, we have used Figma and Adobe Illustrator for UI/UX design handling.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges was the integration of echoAR and Flutter to provide a real-time experience. echoAR is very simple to use but could create a ton of silly mistakes and debugging them is really hard, so we had to keep rewriting the code multiple times, each time with proper care to ensure that there is no error. So, this was quite time-consuming and hence we had to rush with our app, but finally, we did make it and hit the time constraints without fail.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I’ve always wanted to help elderly people through technology in some way or the other. Knowing that this app can help with making their day to day transactions easier, makes me very happy. ~Sanjana

Making sure that even the elderly know how to manage transactions, with the power of AR just makes me happy about the fact how we are transitioning slowly into the world of finance with AR. ~Amey

What we learned

As a team, we collaboratively worked together to make this project a success and as a result, we have improved our team-building skills, and excellent communication among the teammates has been proved to be fruitful. We learned new UI/UX methodology like Figma and emerging technology of Augmented Reality using echoAR which is effectively powerful and has proven to be more than just an AR SDK by its powerful integration within various cross-platform development services like Flutter and React. We have also used Dialog Flow for chatbot which was something new for us to use. Along with this, we also had a great time developing the app.

What's next for Pecunia

By cooperating with finance companies like American Express and AR/VR technologies such as EchoAR, we plan on further expanding our app’s capabilities. We also plan to use emerging technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the support of Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa to make savings and financial planning simple and easy. Auto reminders will be set so that users will be notified when they are reaching their card limit.