Company Overview
Our client, an urban planning and community advocacy organization based in Baltimore, Maryland, is committed to enhancing the quality of life in the city’s neighborhoods by tackling urban blight. Their mission is to engage residents in identifying and addressing run-down properties, ultimately fostering healthier and safer communities.
Key Challenges
Our client needed a technological solution that would enable residents to actively monitor and report blighted properties. However, several significant challenges needed to be addressed first:
Low Community Engagement
Currently the residents had limited tools to report blighted properties, leading to underreporting and delayed action.
Data Collection Issues
The client struggled to gather accurate data on blighted properties, making it difficult to plan and advocate for effective interventions.
Inefficient Reporting Process
The methods that already existed for reporting blight were cumbersome and lacked transparency, leading to frustration among community members.
Lack of Insights
The organization needed robust tools to analyze the impact of blight on community health and safety, as well as to assess the effectiveness of interventions.
Our Solution
Our team did thorough analysis and identified several key requirements for the project: a user-friendly interface to enhance community engagement, real-time data reporting and tracking to streamline communication with authorities, geolocation and mapping integration for accurate documentation, and robust data security measures to protect sensitive user information.
According to our analysis, the solution we developed was the “Fight Blight BMore” mobile app. We built this app that met the client’s requirements by providing a powerful yet user-friendly tool that allowed residents to report, track, and monitor blighted properties within their communities.
Implementation Process
- Leverages Google Maps API for precise tagging of blighted property locations.
- Enhances accuracy in reports, aiding authorities in locating and addressing issues efficiently.
- Facilitates in-app photo documentation of property conditions.
- Includes a customized rating scale for assessing the severity of blight, providing valuable area-specific insights.
- Automates the submission of property details to relevant authorities.
- Streamlines the reporting process and minimizes duplication.
- Ensures data is continuously updated and synced, providing access to the most current blight reports.
- Supports quicker, data-driven decision-making.
- Designed with simplicity and ease of use, catering to all levels of technical expertise.
- Offers a user-friendly experience to encourage active participation.
- Provides login options via Google, Facebook, or Apple accounts.
- Simplifies the registration process, increasing user adoption.
- Implements strong encryption protocols to protect user information.
- Ensures that all data is securely transmitted and stored.
Tech Stack
Flutter Dart
Firebase
MobX
Provider
Google Maps API
UI/UX Design
The design of this app was made very straightforward to deliver a seamless user experience.
The Results
As our team successfully implemented the app, it is now performing as expected in achieving its objectives:
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