Architectural View of an App for Walking Through a City in a Safe Way

Abstract

This chapter offers a general review of the presence of the risks present in today s society and its impact on citizens daily lives as well as the challenge it represents for the authorities in their desire to turn their cities into smart cities and proposes the use of Safe Paths, a mobile application focused on risk prevention based on social collaboration to identify dangerous areas and give alerts based on their users location and the risks around to them. It also describes the architecture used by Safe Paths, the sketches used in its development, and finally shows the interface it provides to the end-user.