Fortify Me

Abstract

Mobile phone is basic need of modern society. To cater any unforeseen tragedy in a routine day to day life, it is extremely important to have a quick information facility to let the loved ones knew the current situation and status. Manual exercise in this causal task may become a rampage in itself and therefore beimpractical. This application provides an easy answer to this problem, application itself updates the location and status. User, in any kind of emergency would just have to press one click on his smart phone and a consolidated information about his problem is delivered to his dear ones within seconds. The system consists of two parts. An android application running on smart phone and a java based server. The aim of system is to bring maximum possible ease to the user during any emergency. Predefined messages stored in the application are triggered on the single click of the user. Messages are directed to predefined numbers using GSM module, moreover location and profile of the user is sent to the nearby people by using internet module. Should there be any delay in propagation or navigation due to signal strength, the application re-directs continuously until the message is sent. The server side consists of a running application which caters the requests from the user, it also contains a database which is constantly updated with the location of users. The server application decides number of users in the closest locality and re-directs the user request to nearby people. The GUI of the application is a built with minimum user interactions so as to reduce time. Multithreading has been implemented so the application may performs various task simultaneously in order to reduce processing time.