Data privacy is more important now than ever before. But wait- your phone is listening to you along with every other IoT device you have. We needed to design a product in order to mitigate these breaches of privacy and confidentiality. Our product, Deadzone, allows us to protect privacy by using an algorithm to construct an anti-wave to the sound wave of someone talking: this ensures that you can be safe from your own devices.

We were inspired by the lack of security in IoT systems.

It protects users by preventing their devices from listening to them.

We used raw html to create the web app and a python CV library.

We ran into a problem where the sound that was made was too loud when canceling out the voice so people could hear it.

The voice gets scrambled, and it is hard to tell what the person is saying, and the sound is quiet.

We learned how to use CV and integrate sensors with virtualized hardware. We also learned how canceling out sound waves work.

Privion is working towards creating physical devices and making it compatible with many different devices. We also plan integrating kmk coding for full functionality.