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Beware: Mobile and Web Application to Prevent Crimes against the Patrimony, Life, Body and Health

Authors:
Alexa Tataje
Marco Florián
David Mauricio

Keywords: geolocation; mobile computing; crime prevention; smartwatch

Abstract:
Faced with the difficulty to know all the dangerous areas and find the latest information to avoid becoming the victim of a crime, this article proposes a mobile application for smartphones and smartwatches called Beware, which shows the dangerous zones within a specific geographical area according to the day and time of the week. This application also allows reporting emergencies to the corresponding emergency service entities and communicating events that put at risk the patrimony, life, body and health of other users and yourself. In addition, another Web application is proposed for the emergency service (police station, fire brigade or municipal patrols) responsible for receiving the emergency calls. User tests show that 14 out of 15 citizens consider that the proposed application is useful and very useful for public safety.

Pages: 11 to 18

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: November 12, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-598-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 12, 2017 to November 16, 2017