open-soft-interiit15

Solution for Problem statement given for Open Soft competition under Inter IIT Tech meet - 2015

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Title

Powering Rural regions with connect using phones with sparse 2G & Bluetooth connections

Objective

Mobile phones penetration in Rural India is increasing comparable to TV & Radios, which were the traditional source of entertainment and educative information. Although the mobile phones can be a great medium for serving the same, but these mobile phones have limited (part of the day) or no data-access. Your objective is to build a system to make the "relevant" or "popular" content available on these phones offline by pushing the data when the phones come online, most importantly the system should have a rich search experience.

Constraints

• You will have 100 videos of each 3-8MB roughly (in total say about 500MB)
• In addition, 1000s of rich text content like Weather info, Commodities info, Educational info
• Phones have sporadic Data connection, may have 1 to 4 hrs of connectivity every day
• Data Speed (2G) is assumed to be in the range of 22 to 80 Kbps (average: ~56Kbps)
• Maximum Data storage available on phone will be 256 MB

Evaluation Criteria

• Fully Database searchable with rich experience offline
• Relevant content made available offline, Maximum search hits during offline.
• System should have offline Learning capability and it should benefit the entire user-base
• Any innovative ideas using phone capabilities like Bluetooth or any other way to optimise data-usage.

PS: This can be simulated on stand-alone or web-app, not necessary to showcase as an Android app, it left to the Student's ability.