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.
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At present, technology and its many advantages have been applied to different aspects of our society; from its effectiveness in improving educational processes, where technological tools have proven their effectiveness since it allows students to learn anywhere and at any time (Fonseca, Conde, & García-Peñalvo, 2018; Fonseca & García-Peñalvo, 2019); its ability to promote economic activities such as tourism, where the creation of recommendation systems has had a great impact (Colomo-Palacios, García-Peñalvo, Stantchev, & Misra, 2017); until its inclusion in strategies to face such worrying problems as citizen insecurity and crime.
Citizen insecurity and the increase in crimes committed in today's society have become a relevant issue for society and its authorities, who in order to turn their cities into more attractive places for their citizens have chosen for using information and communication technologies, to solve these problems. The use of ICT, focused on combating and reducing citizen insecurity, has resulted in the proposal of many platforms and applications.
One of these is Safe Paths, a project that emerged from a group of university students, which aims to provide an alternative that helps people to move safely in any city using geolocation and crowdsourcing, warning of the risks that a citizen may face (Pérez Vizcarra, Anccasi Figueroa, Torres Chana, & García-Peñalvo, 2019).
For a better understanding of this proposal, some technical aspects about its design and operation are detailed below, in addition, it will show the interface it uses and the mode of interaction it has with the user.