Inception
Few years ago at FUTO (Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Circa 2016), I was at a popular cybercafe close to Hostel D, a popular female hostel, charging my laptop. I was programming a website for a final year project. All of a sudden, there was a commotion. Everyone was panicking, some were prostrating, some were lying down and before I knew it, everybody was lying on the ground. I was the only one sitting. I was carried away with what I was working on. I was brought back to reality when someone took a laptop that was beside me! The way the laptop was snatched was totally abnormal. Just before I could organize my thoughts and orientation, my laptop was snatched. But my tablet was spared. A few things happened thereafter but I swore to build an app that’ll help me track my gadgets because of theft.
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Fast forward to Nov, 2021. A year post-pandemic. I’ve completed a prototype Android app that can detect when you’re in danger and it starts sending it’s location to your contacts asking for help. The prototype took 3 months to develop. I’ve named it Sentinel, a digital dog. I look forward to the lives this app would save.
To try it out, Download it from Google Drive : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HIPHW7_dCap5jtc5XGO7qqlyzfew7Nwp/view?usp=sharing
