Walking home alone, especially at night, can be a very unpleasant and dangerous experience, especially for women. In order to feel safer on the way home, students Danny Freed, Jake Wayne, Lexie Ernst and Katie Reiner developed the Companion App, which allows friends and family members to accompany us on the way home via their mobile phones.
Companion App she is excellent mobile application, which allows to feel safer on the lonely way home. Its use is completely simple. You can ask your friend or family member to follow you home with the help of their smartphone via the application. When he accepts his task, a map appears on the device, through which he can follow our steps, and during the journey we can quickly press certain buttons to let him know that we do not feel safe and that we need help.
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Application it also detects if we have accelerated our step and makes it available to us in case of sudden changes 15 seconds of time, to confirm if everything is fine. Otherwise, our "guardian angel" warns us with a loud alarm that we are in danger, and he can immediately find our coordinates notify the police. For once, the mobile application can only be used by residents of the United States, but soon we can expect the possibility of international use as well.
Companion app
More information:
www.companionapp.io
