2MAway

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Inspiration

We have been staying home for the last two months. I know it is hard for some of us because there are some times we have to go out. However, how can we know if it is going to be safe out there or not? Our Project helps people to feel secure every time they want to go out, not only during this time.

What it does

2MAway is a website help user to stay safe during this challenging time by:

Track people, you exposed to

Provide services to report your health status

Track location you intend to go to to see if it safe

Visit our website here

How I built it

We use Firebase as our database, and we also integrate Google-Maps-API into our Project.

We track the location of the user in our website and measure the distance between users

We let the users know if they have contacted (less than 2 meters) with the person who reported to be Corona infected.

We measure the number of people in an area that user choose to alert about the crowd status

Challenges I ran into

There were some issues behind the behind to calculate the distance and keep it up to real-time data that make us struggles a bit. However, we manage to make the back-end fully functional. Secondly, This is the first time we exposed to JavaScript. Both of us did not have any experience with JavaScript before. We learned the language and did the project at the same time.

Potential Development

Our Project will not only be limited to this pandemic time only. During normal days, when a user wants to go shopping, they can absolutely use our website to check the location because it is crucial to keep a safe distance with other people. Moreover, it will allow us to check the density of people at the given destination to serve different public purposes such as avoiding traffic jams, time-consuming shopping, ...

What's next for 2MAway

For this application, we hope that we will be able to extend the version of the app to wider uses such as check-in by location, avoid traffic jams by looking at the density of people on the road, make full potential use of shopping to avoid waiting,... Furthermore, we can make more features that will allow users to use the web application more efficiently.