A team of six MTech students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad has won the ‘Smart India Hackathon 2019’ and prize money of Rs 75,000. The team, known by the name ‘SNAAPP’ claims to have coded non-stop for 36 hours to create a mobile app that can manage the hierarchical system of updating construction site progress and can generate reports directly via the app for managers and higher authorities.
The application is structured in two parts consisting of a manager’s dashboard and site engineer’s dashboard. Different site engineers from different areas will provide the details in the form of text and images. Timestamp and GPS location will be taken automatically to verify the authenticity of the images.
Once the report is submitted from the site engineer’s app, it will reflect on the manager’s dashboard and he can check the progress there on a real-time basis. Other than that, site engineer can ask for material, machine or workforce requirements, if needed. The algorithm is written to help in generating reports on a daily and Weekly basis.
Read more of this in a report published in The Indian Express...
