2. cudl.io
cudlcudl is...
The Team:
Harri Bell-Thomas, James Clifton, Ben Hope and Melody Perry
The App:
An SOS app to to report social and medical emergencies, and get
personal and community crowd-sourced help fast.
3. cudl.io
cudlcudl… the app
● This Java based SOS app holds and displays personal and
medical data.
● When SOS is clicked cudl automatically sends messages to
personal emergency contacts and cudl community nearby.
● When users hit SOS, cudl displays:
○ medical and personal info for responders,
○ nearest hospitals to the current location,
cudl
There were 1.9m
violent incidents
in England and
Wales in 2012-13
5. cudl.io
cudlcudl... the apis
● Data is sourced from APIs including Geonames, Google Places
and the US National Institute of Health (NIH) MedlinePlus API.
● The app communicates with server to send latitude and longitude
data.
● This is used to retrieve nearby hospital and street info via
connected data sources to contextualise response information.
cudl
Victim-based
crime accounted
for 83% of all
police recorded
crime
in 2012-13
6. cudl.io
cudlcudl… heartbeat
● cudl includes a service, Heartbeat, to crowd-source local help
● It enables alerts to be sent, anonymously and securely, to nearby
people with devices that also run cudl.
● Heartbeat devices are only ever aware of each other when a
community member is chosen to respond to an alert.
● Members of the public are notified that someone is in distress
nearby and helps them to help those in trouble.
cudl
2.2 million incidents of anti-social
behaviour (ASB) were recorded by the
police in 2012-13