Inspiration
Many students at RIT have to fill out the daily health screen. It's not an easy task to remember to fill it out daily.
What it does
It sends text messages with the daily health screening link and RIT's Covid-19: stats. In addition, we made a website where people could sign up for this service by adding in their phone number.
How we built it
We used Java with Twilio API to be able to send those text messages. Next we used some of the JSON library to be able to grab and breakdown information about the Covid-19 stats from a website. We used php to make the website and to be able to store input from the website.
Challenges we ran into
Originally, we wanted to use Azure to be able automate the software to send those reminders daily. In the end, we decided to use google cloud services. We came into trouble with storing information from the website and ultimately decided to use php to do that.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we managed to make a bot that can send reminder messages.
What we learned
We learned that if we wanted to use Azure with our application, we should have written the code in C# to make things easier for us. In addition, we learned more about how we can grab information from a website.
What's next for RIT Daily Health Screening Bot
Ideally, we would continue to work on trying to figure out how to automate it with Azure or Google cloud. Next, we would have our own URL for the website.
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