BeacON

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For Hack for Humanity 2019, my team created an iOS app that communicates with iBeacons to the general location of the person who activated it. After mapping to their general location (the person's address for example), ambulances can ultimately communicate with the devices of these people to cut the time needed to get to the person’s precise location.

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We first set up an iBeacon using a raspberry pi3. We then connected exterior buttons to a breadboard and programmed them to interact with the Beacon. The buttons are able to turn "on" and "off" the Beacon – in other words, it would make the Beacon broadcast BLE signals that would be picked up by our app. On the app side, we used the CoreLocation framework in Swift to scan the area for beacons. From here, it's possible to get a sense of how close or far this beacon is using the CLProximity class.

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Though not fully functioning the way we wanted it to, we were still able to demo our project to the judges and won in the health category.