All Hands On Deck

Core Responsibilities

- Working in a team to build utilities

- Implementing APIs to speed up development

- Developing intuitive user interfaces

Description

AHOD is a utility app made for use in the RNLI to speed up the time taken to inform the best team to save lives.

The app is used to locate the nearest members of specific skills to ensure a full crew is populated and sent out to an emergency as quickly as possible. This is done via GPS, using a map to track each user allowing a station master to select and automatically call each chosen user.

Technical Tasks

- Using device GPS to determine data accuracy

- Automatically selecting most appropriate users for roles

- Using mobile services to maintain connection without app open

- Sending and receiving of messages using database