BeSafe

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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

• pytorch
• facebook-messenger
• react-js
• heroku