Inspiration
Recent Plane crashes and missing victims motivate us to build an application that aids in finding these downed planes and help curb the agony that people feel for their loves one who died in plane crashes that were not reached in time.
What it does
Reading the x, y and z coordinate values from an accelerometer built into the phone, the app can check for if these values pass a threshold. If they do, their x, y, and z values along with latitude, longitude, and altitude, obtained by using the geo-location api for android, are sent to our syncano server for rescue
How I built it
We first protyped and tested accelerometer and gelocation output apps to know the kind of data that was going to be encountered for the application. When that worked, we then incorporate the alogrithms into one application. We then registered a synaco server and sent our data to it.
Individual accomplishments:
Tom - Android Application
Kunal - Synaco server
Parker - Graphics designer
Tien - Tester
Challenges I ran into
Communication between the app and syncano server were encounter
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Building a client-server application that utilizes a background thread, using android apis fully, minimal user-interface with huge effects
What I learned
Accessing android sensors, better development methology, geolocation, synaco server setup
What's next for Crash Alert
Better precision from app to server, IOS development, graphing on website
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