SafeTrack

Meeting Time

Monday 4pm

Project Description

We are SAFETRACK. In rural/undeveloped communities, vulnerable persons leave the safety of their own homes to reach essential resources. These essential resources can range from a communal water supply, restroom, or a place of education. While vulnerable people travel to these essential resources, they are disconnected from their safety net (their family and inner community) and can become targets for human trafficking, assault, rape, and kidnapping. Our project aims to provide vulnerable people with a network that gives them the ability to share their location with loved ones, call for emergency services, and alert loved ones if their movement is suspicious. We intend to deliver these key functions by creating our own version of a cellular network. Our diy-cellular-network operates using a network of “nodes.” Each “node” can transmit data packets to nearby nodes using LoRa WAN radio frequencies. By creating a network mesh of static and dynamic nodes, we can share the GPS location of specific nodes carried by vulnerable persons.