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BeSafe will alert you when disaster comes
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Ask you a few questions to know your situation
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Suggest you what to do based on your situation
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Connect you with other people nearby so you can help each others
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A dashboard to help authorities to keep track of who are safe and who are in danger
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The Authorities can hear the victims in real-time
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The Authorities can broadcast message to all the people are near the disaster
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The Message broadcasted by Authority will be send to everyone.
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The time line of announcements the authorities made
Inspiration
- In 1994, the Northridge earthquake caused $75B and killed more than 60 people.
- In 2017, Hurricane Irma caused $50B in damage to Miami and killed 129 people.
- SDG Target 11.5 looks to significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses.
- Disasters often impact communications infrastructure.
What it does
- Disaster early warning.
- Connect people with people and authority with people during a disaster via multiple communication channels.
- Give suggestions to people and city authorities during the disaster.
- Solutions for pre - during - after the disaster.
How we built it
- By talking with Jason and other SDGs experts we all agree that communication during a disaster is a key component to reduce deads and losses. So we sat down and brainstorm about how technology can help.
- After 2 hours the solution comes to light and with years of programming @iphong - a ReactJS developer he quickly built up the frontend.
- @max80713 is the one who creates the most of our chatbot which user will get to talk during the disasters using Messenger APIs.
- @Ngoc Khuat and @Hoàng Tùng Lâm (Linus) with the help of PyTorch experts built up the recommendation systems and the backend in a very short time.
Challenges we ran into
- Figure out how to connect people together during the disaster.
- Making the app accessible for all user.
Impacts
- Reduce cost and losses by early alert the disasters.
- Connect people so they can help each other during the disaster.
- Give city authorities a way to communicate with people during the disaster.
What we’ve learned
- The damage of disaster on people lives and economic losses.
- The importance of communication during disasters.
- How great teamwork can make a big difference.
What's next for BeSafe
- Expand it to other channels: SMS, Whatsapp, Mesh-Network.. so people can access it anywhere, anytime during the disaster.
- Make the platform be easy to access, even with people in a less developed country.
- Optimize to make the chatbot can respond quickly with millions of people in real time.
- Collecting more data to improve the recommendation engine.
- Using Wit.AI for better conversations.
Built With
- facebook-messenger
- heroku
- pytorch
- react-js
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