Reservd | Devpost

Inspiration

In today’s digital world, students arriving at college carry fewer belongings, knowing they can buy whatever they need, but buying new items all the time can be wasteful and expensive. They could borrow items or buy or get it free from someone local, but they don’t always have the time to meet in person to make the exchange.

Having lockers to facilitate this exchange is not a new concept, but how we use them is.

What it does

Similar to Amazon Hub, we offer an IoT Smart Locker System that allows people to exchange items in a clean, secure, safe, and contactless way. Unlike what currently exists, we implemented 3 factor authentication to ensure that the right items go to their intended recipient.

Reservd allows people to find, rent, and unlock lockers at their convenience, without the hassle of a burdensome administrative process or without having to pre-determine the need or use and commit to a specific locker for a long period of time, we increase efficiencies and provide safe, clean, contactless pick-up options for recipients around the clock. And all you need is your phone to do all this.

How we built it

We use React Native for the mobile interaction, Google Cloud Platform to facilitate triggered actions and object detection, and a lot of hardware to make the actual locker.

Challenges we ran into

Time is the biggest challenge, and with spotty wifi, it slowed our progress further.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a working IoT smart locker!!!

What we learned

With a background in React, we just picked React Native. For some of us, we had never worked with hardware, so we learned a lot about soldering and different tools needed to facilitate interactions. We also learned about designing endpoints.