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Friday

Your Schedule At Your Fingertips.

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Friday

Your Schedule At Your Fingertips.


The problem Friday solves

Student's life has a lot of issues, from managing academics to extensive hardships along the way. One major challenge is to locate classes and to remember the timetable due to the sheer amount of courses offered and the amount of buildings that offer them. This is especially so in case of VIT, as we generally dont have cellular access everywhere to use the VITian app (an android app by VIT) in order to figure out the next class, and offline screenshots generally don't do justice to the fast paced nature of students. This is especially so for iOS users as the web portal isnt necessarily optimised for Safari and there's no iOS app for the same (VITian is Android only and is in its beta stage)
We plan to solve the problem ( in general but currently targetted towards VIT) by creating IOT RFID based modules that are centrally connected to a singular database as per the customer's (VIT's) request. The module's base functionality is as follows,

  • The module itself will be located in areas of high foot density such as near canteens, elevators, stairs and so on.
  • Here the student doubtful about his/her classes can simply walk up to the module and instantly scan their ID card to immediately know the location of their next class ( Theres an OLED screen on the module as well as a speaker output if required)
  • The module also comes with a signup portal as well as an iOS app that integrates with Siri. The Siri scripts are customised for the registered user to enable working without any internet. Simple commands like "Where's my class" will prompt an output from Siri.
  • An added feature can be to ask siri when the next Assignment is.
  • This can be extremely helpful for schools which don't allow the use of phones.
  • Apart from the student lifestyle their features can be expanded to other scenarios such as Hospitals (For example-Residents Timetable), Workspaces involving schedules and so on

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