Issues / Challenges Faced:
- Unawareness of crime issues happening within the neighbourhood
- Lack of accurate crime data to be gathered within neighbourhoods
- Lack of unity between residents within the same neighbourhood
- Lack of precautions that are taken by residents within neighbourhoods
Solution:
A community-based social media application which allows residents within the same neighbourhood to share infomation such as complaints, events and incidents that have happened.
Three types of user roles:
Residents
- Join Neighbourhood Groups
- Create Posts (Complaints / Events / Suggestions)
- Create Crime Reports
- Receive Alers & Notifications
- Vote to Select Resident Leader
- Sign Up & Login Account
Resident Leader
- Set Group Visibility
- Regulate Posts
- Regulate Crime Reports
- Regulate Resident Users
- Generate Alerts & Notifications
- Edit Group's Rule & Information Page
Admin
- Moderate Neighbourhood Groups
- Gather Residents' Feedbacks Regarding the Application
- Provide Updates & Maintenance
Advantages to Existing Solutions:
- Gather crime data from neighbourhoods all around Malaysia
- Automatic crimes / complaints notifications whenever user enters a neighbourhood
- Differentiate the neighbourhoods based on the frequencies and severities of crimes happening using Heat Maps for better visualization
- Provide residents with security suggestions based on all the neightbourhood crime data gathered
Technology:
- Flutter Framework (Cross-Platform Mobile Application)
- Google Maps API
- MongoDB / phpMyAdmin (SQL vs NoSQL Storage Option)
Competitior Analysis:
- Community Alerts App
- SaveME999 POLIS App
- Reason to use: allows everyone within the neighbourhood to be aware of the crimes that have happened and take any neccessary precautions
Stakeholders:
Residents in Malaysia:
- Informed of any crimes or complaints that have been happening within their neighbourhood & take any necessary precautions ASAP
Government Officials:
- Collect accurate crime data within the community or neighbourhoods throughout Malaysia for analysis & creating counter measures
Future Plans
- Allow for the payment & management of security fees through the app
- Include options for creating donation drives to help the less fortunate of the community
Features Suggestions
- Create Crime Report Posts
- Create Anonymous Complaint Posts
- Create Event Posts
- Discussion Corner (Chat?) (Groups?)
- Suggestions to the Neighborhood
- Booking of Neighborhood Facilities
- Payment of Fees
- Heat Map for Crime Severity
- AI to get security precautions