Flock
Even in today's connected world, it is easy to get separated from the people you care about. Flock's simple setup and real time tracking capabilities, eliminate the anxiety of getting lost in the crowd and keep "birds of a feather", together.
Flock allows its users to share their physical location with people they know and care about for limited periods of time. Flock eliminates the anxiety of a child wandering off momentarily and the struggle of gathering friends back together at an amusement park or after a concert. Flock can alleviate tension between friends with very different interests and provide logistical intel, and a sense of comfort in emergency situations when groups are unexpectedly split. Flock can even help you locate your phone if it gets stolen or lost!
Flock is an android supported app that uses Microsoft Azure and Cognitive Services to make identifying friends and family members in your group easier than ever. Pictures a user takes are matched against user data stored in a FireBase database. Once a user approves being added to a new group, their location is shared with all group members using the real time data in FireBase mapped on Google maps.
In it's current state, Flock does not save contacts or photos past the predetermined grouping time limit. Though using Flock to share your location with friends is still easier than typing names, making calls and sending snapchats or searching through contacts for people, it is still a bit of a nuisance for connections that are commonly together. In the future, Flock will support users to agree to be remembered as group members of a particular group which would enable regrouping without the need for taking pictures.