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Senevolus; Lend a Hand, Build a Connection
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Creating new Tasks as an Elderly

Inspiration

My girlfriend often told me about her grandmother that was often feeling lonely and would struggle doing daily necessary tasks, like shoveling outside of her house or going for groceries. This made me think that a lot of people want to help the elderly that might need assistance, but reject the idea quickly since no platform offers a quick access to information about who in our surroundings might require help.

What it does

This is where Senevolus enters the picture. Our application offers a very secure and familiar interface to connect volunteers and the elderly who might need help with some physical tasks, or simply who would like some company to have a chat or play some games. The elderly make an account and register new tasks in our database when they anticipate that help might be necessary or appreciated. Then, volunteers that signed up will have access to the requests posted and can offer their help whenever they are available. Our AI model, trained of specific data for the task, is used to ensure authenticity of the volunteers and elderly registering in the website. The model has as input a selfie of the user and a picture of their official ID, and analyzes whether they contain the same face, ensuring that they are verified humans. The ID's are an extra security to protect against malicious people. An incentive to participate in helping the elderly is developed through a points shop where volunteers who have helped many of the elderly can buy discounts at diverse sponsors of Senevolus, as well as merch with our beautiful logo on it!

How we built it

We developed the front end using Angular, and the backend using Flask, MongoDB and Firebase.

Challenges we ran into

Some of our functionalities were too complicated to be implemented in the short amount of time the Hackathon allowed us, which meant we had to give up on some features and leave them in future works.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Making a fully functional app that works dynamically with a very complex backend

What we learned

How teamwork and efficient workflows make for very proficient developments in our apps, as well as a new stack of technologies most of us weren't accustomed to previous to this hackathon.

What's next for Senevolus

We would love to make this application public and integrate a system for nurses and quality of life workers that could participate in the voluntary work, and an alert system that would notify the nurses assigned to the elderly that they might have fell or have been hurt for faster and more efficient care.