Issues / Challenges Faced:

1. Unawareness of crime issues happening within the neighbourhood
2. Lack of accurate crime data to be gathered within neighbourhoods
3. Lack of unity between residents within the same neighbourhood
4. 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