Inspiration
Child kidnapping has increased rapidly due to lack of proper tracking of school buses an example is the chibok girls that was kidnapped using their school bus of which after the incident 10,000 kids have been unable to attend school because of the safety risk according to wikipedia
What it does
our project monitors in real time the kids when they leave school ground till they get to their hoes and also tells the speed the vehicle is moving and
How I built it
It was built using particle as the microcontroller using C++ sending location data through the internet for the rea tie firebase and the firebase is deployed on the cloud and we visualized using google maps api
Challenges I ran into
getting to understand the node platform and trying to use slack for work
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
we were able to make it work using particle given the short time we had to prepare
What I learned
we learnt how to communicate and work as a team remotely
What's next for Keepers
we plan to improve on our algorithm and get our project turned into a product for secondary school to deploy
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