The Rescue Dog application is a hybrid mobile application available on iOS and Android. The application connects rescue dog owners with emergency situations where a rescue dog is needed.
| Client: | Hungarian Rescue Dog Foundation |
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| Year: | 2018 |
| Technologies: | Node.js, Angular, Amazon Web Services, Ionic, MongoDB |
The Rescue Dog application is a hybrid mobile application available on iOS and Android. The application connects rescue dog owners with emergency situations where a rescue dog is needed.
The full application was developed as a pro bono project for the Alliance of the Hungarian Rescue Dog Organizations (from then “Foundation”).
Before the mobile application, a dispatcher was responsible for going through an Excel sheet and listing all the registered rescue dog owners. In case of emergency, the dispatcher had to go through the whole list to find someone who was available and also close to the location.
In some cases, the rescue dog owners weren’t available, and the dispatcher had to call them one by one until she found at least one available dog owner.
This was an inefficient way to find someone available with a rescue dog in situation where every minute counts and efficiency could save lives.
It was also impossible to track the activity of dog owners, making it really hard to compensate their service fairly. Due to the lack of transparency, it was even harder to get new sponsors for the Foundation.
The Foundation neither had a permanent developer team on board nor the necessary funds to develop a mobile application that was available on the main platforms (Android, iOS).
Coding Sans partnered with the Foundation and took the project as pro bono. We were responsible for creating the full application (developing the frontend, backend) including minor design-related activities.
The mobile application has two main functions:
Admin:
User:
Thanks to the mobile application, the process of assigning cases for rescue dog owners became more efficient, helping the rescue team to arrive faster and potentially save lives in the future.
Since the application has a statistics feature, every necessary information is tracked and stored. This information can be used to make the Foundation’s operation more transparent and to attract more sponsors in the future. Based on real data, they can fairly support dog owners for their help.
