have declined in usage over time<\/a>. Additionally, many incidents require discretion and can\u2019t be reported using a blue light kiosk or through a phone call in the moment. And for emergency responders, every detail and every minute counts.<\/p>\nIn response to the growing need for added safety on campus, five computer science and engineering students are working with ADT, the most trusted name in security, on their Senior Design project. Together, they are working on a new approach that could help provide a new safety response system on campus saving precious time.<\/p>\n
The five seniors involved in the project are Tristen Lawrence, Brendan Henriques, Alex Le, Zhongqi Luo, and Anas Rajeh. While the students aren\u2019t instituting the whole system, they are working on the front-facing interface that students, faculty, and staff would see when they\u2019re submitting an incident.<\/p>\n
Lawrence said that this product will be crucial for any college campus that has on-campus security or police that need information quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delivering a front-end solution for UConn, or any university when an incident occurs so that there\u2019s a clear communication platform with all the information needed for a dispatcher to send the necessary first responders. This is truly an innovative solution to 21st-century problems,\u201d Lawrence said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a high-level basic sense, it will be a dashboard, and we want all of the information to be easily readable and legible. The proposed technology could integrate with ADT\u2019s emergency button app called \u2018SoSecure by ADT,\u201d which is a discrete app allowing someone to report a crime happening through chat, a slider, or a video chat,\u201d said Henriques.<\/p>\n
According to the SoSecure by ADT website, the app is a solution for people that need to contact authorities, but in situations that require discretion. The app uses tracking technology, and contacts family and close contacts in case of emergency or allows you to send alerts hands-free using a secret phrase or voice command.<\/p>\n
With any Senior Design project, teams have highs and lows throughout the process, and one hurdle was learning the different programming languages they would need to build the new user experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis happens with so many projects, but for us, we really struggled with the hurdle of what we didn\u2019t know,\u201d said Henriques. \u201cMost of us here have never worked with a few of the technologies being used in this application, so we had to learn Angular, Agile, and a lot of HTML and CSS that you don\u2019t get in a traditional computer science curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for the breakthroughs, a lot of the members of the group had never worked in a project setting like this, so the students agreed that getting on the same schedule, constantly communicating, and assigning specific roles allowed them to get on track and solidify a direction for the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my first real project, so unlike Tristen and Brendan who have some experience, I didn\u2019t have a grip on all the complexities that surround a project, so it took me a little while to get into the groove, but now I\u2019m much better,\u201d Rajeh said.<\/p>\n
As for the next steps, the group will be continuing work into the winter and spring semesters, to have a working demo they can test out earlier in the Spring, working towards a completed project for Senior Design Demonstration Day on April 29.<\/p>\n
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This article is part of a multi-part series on engineering students, and their journey through senior design. Part two of this team\u2019s journey will come out in April 2022.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to the growing need for added safety on campus, five computer science and engineering students are working with ADT, the most trusted name in security, on their Senior Design project. Together, they are working on a new approach that could help provide a new safety response system on campus saving precious time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":216987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-30216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 01:00:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216988,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30216\/revisions\/216988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/216987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30216"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=30216"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}