Climate Messenger is a whatsapp-based bot that uses machine learning to predict Agriculture Producer Prices based on users location, provide latest agricultural news and search options.
Whatsapp-based bot, for agriculture news, price prediction and search options
Approximately 9 percent of the global population is suffering from hunger. And, much of the world’s food is grown by small-scale, independent farms and distributed through local community cooperatives who sell the surplus produce. These independent farmers and co-ops do not have accessible tools/platforms to get the right information for better crop production and price fairness.
By providing access to useful information to independent farmers and co-ops through a familiar platform that is easy to use.
To improve access to information using technologies that are already accessible and familiar to farmers and co-ops so they don't have to learn new technology.
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User sends a message through WhatsApp.
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The message is redirected to Twilio Programmable Messaging service.
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Twilio Programmable Messaging service will further forward the message to the framework hosted on IBM Cloud.
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The framework interacts with one of the Watson services to get the response.
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The Watson service does the necessary computation and returns a response accordingly.
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The framework processes the response and converts it to user readable format and forwards it Twilio.
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Twilio forwards this message as a reply on WhatsApp.
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The user will receive this as a response from Watson service on WhatsApp.
The workflow of the app is as follows:
NOTE: The user has to follow the exact same workflow for the WhatsApp to reply as intended.
| User | Reply | Screenshot |
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| Hi | The message, 'Hi' that you typed on your phone, went through Whatsapp -> Twilio -> Python App hosted on IBM Cloud and returned back to you from Python App hosted on IBM Cloud -> Twilio -> Whatsapp. How Cool is that!! Try asking What can you do? |  |
| What can you do? | I am a bot who is connected to watson services on IBM Cloud! Try asking What are the services you are connected to? |  |
| What are the services you are connected to? | I found the following services associated to me: 1. Watson Machine Learning -> ready Enter the number to know more. 2. Watson Visual Recognition -> No Custom Model Deployed 3. Watson Assistant -> For Agriculture News |  |
| 1 | WML Model id: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx WML Model Name: Deployment of Food Price Prediction WML Model Status: ready Try asking I want to know food prices |  |
| I want to know food prices | Please enter the details with the below format: Predict:<Country>,<Item>, Example: Predict:Germany,Apples |
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| 2 | Watson Assistant Type News for Agriculture News |  |
See below for our proposed schedule on next steps after Call for Code 2021 submission.
See ROADMAP.md
See SETUP.md
- IBM Cloud Foundry - The compute platform used for creating and deploying applications
- Watson Machine Learning - Uesd to build the ML model
- Watson Studio - Uesd to deploy the ML model.
- Object Storage - Used to store ML Model and artifacts
- Twilio Messaging API - Programmable Messaging service used.
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
This project is licensed under the Apache 2 License - see the LICENSE file for details.