[LINK] The Haven App ... Keep Watch

[Stephen Loosley]

Haven: Keep Watch

http://havenapp.org
https://youtu.be/Fr0wEsISRUw


Haven is a way to protect personal spaces and possessions, without compromising privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors

About Haven

Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy. It is an Android application that leverages on-device sensors to provide monitoring and protection of physical spaces. Haven turns any Android phone into a motion, sound, vibration and light detector.

Announcement and Public Beta

We are announcing Haven today, as an open-source project, along a public beta release of the app. We are looking for contributors who understand that physical security is as important as digital, and who have an understanding and compassion for the kind of threats faced by the users and communities we want to support.

We also think it is really cool, cutting edge, and making use of encrypted messaging and onion routing in whole new ways. We believe Haven points the way to a more sophisticated approach to securing communication within networks of things and home automation system. It’s developed in partnership by Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Guardian Project

Safety through Sensors

Haven only saves images and sound when triggered by motion or volume, and stores everything locally on the device. You can position the device’s camera to capture visible motion, or set your phone somewhere discreet to just listen for noises. Get secure notifications of intrusion events instantly and access the logs remotely or anytime later.

The follow sensors are monitored for a measurable change, and then recorded to an event log on the device:

    Accelerometer: phone’s motion and vibration
    Camera: motion in the phone’s visible surroundings from front or back camera
    Microphone: noises in the enviroment
    Light: change in light from ambient light sensor
    Power: detect device being unplugged or power loss

Building

The application can be built using Android Studio and Gradle. It relies on a number of third-party dependencies, all which are free, open-source and listed at the end of this document …
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Cheers,
Stephen