{"id":5059,"date":"2017-10-16T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2017-10-16T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:47:29","slug":"students-develop-women-safety-app-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/10\/16\/students-develop-women-safety-app-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Students develop women safety app at \u2018hackathon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students have made a mobile application for women safety which enables one to send a distress call by merely shaking or dropping the device.<!--more-->Harsh and his team from the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology developed the app \u201cPanchhi\u201d at the two-day \u201chackathon\u201d organised by the Bharati Vidyapeeth\u2019s College of Engineering (BVCOE), affiliated to the Indraprastha University, Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour hackathon, which was conducted between October 10 and 11, saw 25 teams participating in it from several colleges and universities from and outside the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>In line with the government\u2019s initiative to create smart cities and smart villages as future hotspots, the hackathon was themed \u201cSmart Habitat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hackathon was a success with more than 200 student-teams registering for it, 25 teams being selected out of the lot and active participation by them throughout the show,\u201d a statement from the BVCOE said.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u201chacker\u201d, Tanya along with her team from the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technological University also developed an app, and this one notifies the user of the food going stale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dFood wastage is a menace in the country and we wanted to develop a solution to prevent it,\u201d Tanya was quoted saying in the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students have made a mobile application for women safety which enables one to send a distress call by merely shaking or dropping the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}