A cloud based android system for reporting crimes against child sexual abuse Jasmine J1*, Kalimuthu Rajkumar1** 1Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, DMI St. John the Baptist University, Malawi, East Africa *E-mail: jasmichael1990@gmail.com
**rajkumarengg2020@gmail.com
Online published on 04 December, 2021. Abstract A Cloud based Android System for reporting crimes against child sexual abuse is a real time cloud-based system to be used by the general public to report child sexual abuse crimes to relevant organizations. Usually, when crimes of this kind happen, the victims or witnesses go to the police, or call related organizations to report crimes. The crimes are then processed through a paper-based system where the cases are recorded and them handled accordingly. This approach is usually slow and in sometimes reads to dissatisfactions to the victims and relatives. With the wide spread of android phones, android system to report the crimes would make the crime management easier and faster as the crimes will be reported in real time using an android phone. Management of the cases will also be fast as the crimes will be directly reported to a cloud database which will make crime tracing and management faster. A global positioning system will also be implemented to send the location of the crime incident. Firebase real time database will be used to store the data reported. All the users of the system will be authenticated to make sure they are not eligible to use the application and for privacy of user information. Thus, a cloud based android system will be beneficial to both the public and the acting organizations and there by improve measures to reduce sex crimes against children. Top Keywords Cloud, Global Positioning System, Real Time Database, Firebase, Authentication. Top |