Vinky

Your personal guide for a better airport experience. Millions of People board Flights every day, yet most aren’t frequent flyers. We want to make the airport process easy for them.

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Inspiration

For many first-time flyers and flyers who are at new airports, it's often intimidating for flyers to navigate through the huge airport. There are so many terminals and gates a flyer must go through before successfully boarding the plane. Often times flyers will get lost and don't know what to do next, That's why Vinky is here to help.

What it does

Vinky will be your personal guide from the time you enter the airport till the time you exit at the destination. Just Scan the QR Code when you enter the Airport, Leave the rest to Vinky. Yup, that simple! Vinky will extract knowledge on your flight time, terminal, and boarding gate and guide you through each checkpoint. If you are hungry or need to use the restroom just ask Vinky. Vinky will always be here to help.

How we built it

We built this using React-native

Challenges we ran into

There were many challenges we ran into such as integrating QRcode scan and 3d maps. When we try to integrate QR scan there were errors claiming exports were not made successful. Since this is our first time using React native the bugs were hard to debug. Our approach to using 3d maps was restricted when we found out that most 3d map services do not provide map usage for personal use. Attempting to utilize Cockroachdb proved a challenge with various roadblocks along the way (and not enough forum answers) but it did successfully connect insecurely between two local virtual machines. GCP had issues where the libraries and frameworks weren't fully installing on their VMs.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Although we did not accomplish what we imagined we are proud of ourselves for learning a new framework and trying mobile development.

What we learned

Our team has no experience in mobile development, this project gave us an understanding of mobile development and also exposed us to react-native.

What's next for Vinky

In the future, Vinky will be a fully functional app with all the features embedded. And also other cool features such as ordering food during flight, reserving compartment space, etc.

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