Covid-19 Informer

Menu
Daily Graph
Language support
Understand User Queries
ML based daily Prediction
Location based response
Latest News
Deaths and Infected Updates
Recovery Update

Inspiration

With the spread of fake news about Covid-19, with thought why can't we use the same resource to spread proper authentic news for public awareness

What it does

Its a WhatsApp Chatbot which having key features as follows:

Designed to send you realtime statistics updated every 1 hour, you can also send Hi to get current data from the bot anytime !!! District wise data for each State State wise data for India Country wise data Some short headlines for the day Predictions for next day using ML with past each-day statistics Language support: Hindi is also available You can even send your location to how far you are from nearest COVID-19 infected patient Apart from the queries you ask the bot which is guided by menues, the bot can understand phrases to some extent. Graph of last 15 days cases every day sharp at morning 9:00 AM

How we built it

We build the server using nodeJs which uses services of Chat-Api to interact with the Whatsapp server. Moreover we have used crontabs to schedule regular updates for our database and to inform users if there are any new cases.

Challenges we ran into

Understanding the user queries feature was started with a bit of hard coding but with due course of time we implemented it properly with NLP( Natural Language Processing).

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We already have 350+ users onboard who are regularly getting informed by our chatbot.

What we learned

We learned many things like serverside scheduling, standalone JavaScript codes for updates, etc. But more over all these we learned how it feels when we do something for the society.

What's next for Covid-19 Informer

With this Covid-19 Epidemic, We've learned this type of situation become infestation only due to lack of potential and transparent communication between the government and citizens of the country. In this world of technology, almost everyone of us have smart phone in our pockets, but most of us are far away from the genuine information, helpful services from the Internet. On the other hand, everyone has WhatsApp messenger installed and working. We have come up with an idea to deliver the information and these services to their whatsapp. Our solution includes a fully automated chat-bot and using some native services like locations, camera etc and we think that this can used for a hell lot more purposes.