A Mobile Based Application for Journey Safety
Nadia Akter, Anisa Bente Newaz, Amathul Hadi Shakara, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun · IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering · 2017
Journey is an inseparable part of human life which is responsible for human civilization development.Worldwide a large portion of population daily travel for work, shopping, social reasons and many other purposes.Nowadays road accidents, hijacking, robbery, snatching, trap of fraud parties have increased in such a level that people are always concerned about the security and safety of life as well as property during journey.In maximum cases vehicle drivers are found involved with these incidents and victims can't complain to the related authority due to the lack of evidence.Also law enforcement agencies is unable to take proper action against these crimes due to the scarcity of adequate information.Women empowerment and their development is also lagging behind because of insecurity.In past few decades uses of mobile phones has increased enormously.Due to the rapid growth of mobile technology, smartphones are equipped with features likesensors, GPS navigation, digital camera, high speed internet connectivity and many more.Using these sophisticated features of smartphones, an application can be developed to overcome these problems of people and provide safety.Aim of this paper is to design a mobile application called 'Journey Safety' to overcome dangers mentioned above during journey and ensure complete safety.