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EASY JABBER

A mobile covid vaccination strategy using mobile vans powered by real time logistics data and modular decision making framework.

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EASY JABBER

A mobile covid vaccination strategy using mobile vans powered by real time logistics data and modular decision making framework.

The problem EASY JABBER solves

PROBLEMS WITH CURRENT SYSTEM:

  • Lack of adequate resource
  • Overcrowding and congestion in Vaccination centers:
  • Old and Specially Abled Person

PROPOSED SOLUTION
Our solution addresses these issues and proposes a system that can
a) Drastically lower the wastage of vaccines.
b) Reduces the distance travelled and time consumed.
c) Open up a way to get people above 60+ jabbed.

The solution consists of mainly four entities.
Staff and Authority:
It consists of members of the governing body. They will have access to a heatmap which shows the location clusters of all those who have registered for vaccination in our platform.
With this information, members can organize a mobile van vaccine drive. We Provide 4 simple steps to do so.

Login as an authority.
Assign standpoints based on the map cluster. A standpoint should be a place near a cluster where mobile vans will visit to conduct vaccination drives. This is discussed in the standpoint section in detail.
After placing standpoints at the specified location, push the updates. This will notify all users near that place via an sms that a vaccination drive has been announced.
The respective authorities n

ADVANTAGE OVER EXISTING SYSTEM

  • Maintains effective social distancing as the number of people visiting for inoculation will be considerably less and managing them would become easier.
  • All points during the whole process of vaccination shall be recorded step by step in the database. Minimal chances of data mismatch.
  • Minimal wastage of vaccines due to pre-defined number of users in a standpoint as well as storage conditions in the Van itself.
  • Gives access to old age people and specially-abled people to vaccination by bringing vaccination station much nearer to them (i.e 3km from their house)
  • Resources are utilized in an optimized way. Health care workers can rest inside the vans while travelling from one standpoint to another. The workload would be distributed instead of being continuous.

Challenges we ran into

  • Limitations of live tracking

    • Implementation: Displaying the geolocation of vans at real-time is a costly operation and might hamper other important functionalities.
    • Feasibility: One way would be to update the location from the vans itself and updating them to the map. Though it will require several network requests on the client side to fetch that data.
      Another method might be using a 3rd party system like pubnub.
  • Problems with geolocation

    • User permissions: Users might be unwilling to share their location data. In such cases, this system will not be able to provide them with any solution.
    • Human Errors
      While updating database after jabbing a person: If the worker forgets to update the database after vaccination of a person, there will be discrepancy and some error correcting framework must be in place in such cases.

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