Fire! Flood! Blizzard! Earthquake! Natural and human-made disasters are all too frequent. To make matters worse, mass communication is challenging -- there's no great way to quickly notify 1,000 people about the flood soaring through the streets.
We have the solution. During a disaster, yomercency sends Yos to all those subscribed to the YOMERGENCY channel. These Yos contain the type of disaster along with a graphic, the location, and a quick message describing the disaster.
When there's an emergency, a local administrator logs into our admin panel with their Facebook account.
On the main page, the admin describes the disaster with a type, location, and message. With one click of a button sends a Yo to all those subscribed to the YOMERGENCY channel.
All subscribers then receive a Yo from YOMERGENCY. When they open the notification, they are taken to our website. Our site will show them a graphic, the type of disaster, the location and the message.
Yomergency is an Express-based application using MongoDB. Yomergency is currently deployed on Heroku: http://yomergency.herokuapp.com and uses Travis CI for continuous integration.
Yomergency uses Bootstrap as a CSS framework and EJS for the templating language, as well as the following JS packages:
- Passport for Login via Facebook
- Node Yo-API wrapper
- Mongoose to interface with MongoDB
- mongoose-timestamp for createdAt / updatedAt timestamps
- Moment.js for date/time formatting
- express-session for session-storage
Install necessary packages:
$ npm install
Start the server:
$ npm start
Yomergency was built at YHack 2014 by:
| Name | GitHub |
|---|---|
| John Chirikjian | jchirik |
| Anthony Kim | ak3703 |
| Charlie Proctor | charlierproctor |