What is our mission?
What is our mission?
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A brief history
A brief history
In Fresher's Week at Durham (where the majority of our team did their undergraduate degree), students are given a talk in which they are told to take lit routes and avoid walking by the river Wear at night. However, we have found during our degrees there that commercial apps often send us on these routes, even if lit routes exist with similar time frames, and that none of them offer the option of filtering routes to lit options.
As a result, we have come across many students who've felt that they've ended up in unsafe situations, or have had to backtrack multiple times because they've followed these map routes. As a result, we resolved to fix the problem once and for all. Lit routes (our app) offers the solution: easy-to-use and exactly what the market wants, our approach to mapping makes walking safer everywhere.
The Lit-Hat
Data Collected by the Lit-Hat
Where we are today
Where we are today
We've built an app, a hardware helmet, aka the Lit-Hat, and a website (this one!). These make up a framework through which we can achieve the goals we set out (see our aims on the home page).
The app: We used Dart and Flutter to build our platform. Flutter is a cross platform language that makes applications for Android, iOS, Web, Windows and macOS. We also used a Google Cloud console for the map APIs, and all of the data we collect in the future from customers and volunteers using our Lit-Hat (see below) can go to google cloud console and be stored anonymously for GDPR reasons.
The hat: This wearable device consists of a bike helmet with an Arduino attached. A laptop placed in a backpack powers the device and stores collected data. On the Arduino breadboard, a photodiode combined with a potentiometer gives an output analogous to light intensity. The Arduino code reads the intensity and displays a real-time reading between 0 and 100 on a liquid crystal display. When the light level passes below 20 an alert goes off on a speaker.
The website: We used the MLH discount code from the DurHack opening ceremony to buy a free domain (litroutes.co) and built a website using Google sites that details our aims, mission and our team structure. The website is currently listed at https://sites.google.com/view/litroutes/home?authuser=0, as the domain we bought is untrusted so we decided to use the google sites domain.
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