Abstract:
Ohana, meaning family, is a social mobile application that connects you with people around you, whatever your location might be. It provides a platform for conveying information easily to people in a locality.
Ohana enables people to send and receive messages, news and inquiries that are meant for that location. For example:
Is there anybody in SEECS that is an expert at Arduino?
Desperately looking for the book “Distributed Design”. Anybody in hostel has it?
Office closes at 5 pm today instead of 6. Security reasons.
What is the WIFI password here at Roasters?
Ohana addresses the need for easy communication with people around us. . Instead of sending information selectively to people nearby you, Ohana will facilitate you in broadcasting your information to everyone in a pre-defined radius. The information is dependent on the user’s location and changes as the user changes his/her position.
Ohana respects its user’s privacy, by giving them the option of making their location public or not.
Using the mobile application, you can browse and search through posts made by others in the same vicinity, comment on posts for more information, make posts of your own and view posts by locating them on the built-in map. Posts can include text, photos and hyperlinks, with future support for videos and auto-completion. Finally, the system achieves higher availability and scalability by using high performance Amazon Cloud services, including EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk and RDS
