Desarrollo de una aplicación móvil para el apoyo a la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

The present integrative project seeks to optimize resources and unify the effort of DINASED, family members and volunteers who are looking for missing people through a mobile application which shows, in real time, the registered places and the findings which are shown since the search begins. This App shows relevant information such as roads traveled, alerts about the search and the location of the seekers on an interactive and easy to use map. The application was built in an iterative way using the Scrum methodology and it is a contribution to current technology boarding the problem of missing people. It uses Google services such as Maps for Android in order to show a customizable map with search information. Also, Firebase Firestore, a cloud, NoSQL database with real time synchronization capabilities which avoids the need of a server.