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D-Eazy Donation Platform – An Artificial Intelligence
and Video based Mobile Application
Manan Khanna
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Student
Delhi Public School R. K. Puram
New Delhi, India
manankhanna2005@gmail.com
Abstract—About 9.2% of the world, or 689 million people,
live in extreme Poverty according to the World Bank. The social
agencies or trusts are limited in their capability and coverage to
help these underprivileged people for food and main essentials.
This paper focuses on the solution which enables mass Donors
to seamlessly connect to recipients or Point-of-Contacts (PoCs)
for easily donating food and essentials to underprivileged people
while sitting at their homes/places. The solution introduces a
Video-based Mobile App Platform that can be used by Donors
anytime from anywhere to post and schedule their donations.
Recipients directly or through agencies/organizations' PoCs are
notified of the scheduled donations and pick-up/drop can be
arranged internally or through 3rd party pick-up agencies. One
of the other key features is SOS (emergency alert). If any poor
person or family needs urgent help in terms of expensive
medicines, blood, etc., this platform can be used by recipient
PoCs to trigger SOS which will be received by all the people
registered to this platform and hence can offer help
immediately. The Application platform is designed and
developed with frontend user interface in React
Native/JavaScript and backend server in Python/Django. The
application offers AI based Donation Prediction Engine
(AIDPE) for adaptive video upload/upload processing and
efficient PoC allocation based on multiple factors.
Keywords—Poverty; Donor; Point-of-Contact; SoS; AI
I. INTRODUCTION
India is one of the biggest developing nations in the world.
Even if its economy is growing, Poverty is still a huge
challenge. Around 90 million people are living in extreme
Poverty which is around 6-7% of the total population [1]. Most
of these people are struggling to even earn daily food, clothes,
and essentials for themselves or their families. Government
and private agencies including NGOs are trying their best to
help them in whatever way they can. These agencies try to
associate people who can donate to fulfil the cause of helping
these poor people. The efforts from these initiatives are
helpful but have very limited coverage. It's very difficult for
these agencies/NGOs to associate the mass population with
them and convince them to trust these agencies for donations
[16]. On the other hand, there are around 30-40% of the
population in India [2] who really want or have the capacity
to donate and help these under privileged people. But in the
absence of an easy to use and trustable platform, they are not
able to do so, and in fact a lot of re-usable and donatable stuff
is simply going to waste.
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Dhruv Pathak
Software Engineer
Natwest Group
Gurgaon, India
pathakdhruv92@gmail.com
Various NGOs in India and globally are suffering with
common issues like Lack of Funds, Inadequate Training
Personnel, Lack of Public Participation/Volunteerism, lack of
central systems,, lack of co-ordination etc. [17] [18].
This paper discusses a video based mobile application –
D-Eazy designed for Android and Apple/iOS platforms in
hybrid mode. This mobile application will act as an ultimate
solution for providing an end-to-end donation system and
solve many challenges in the current ecosystem. The paper has
been organized as follows: Section II highlights the challenges
of the existing systems and offers the D-Eazy mobile app as
the solution with many user-friendly features. Section III
discusses the architecture and technical aspects of the app.
Working flow with the help of screenshots is discussed in
Section IV. The work is concluded in Section V.
II. PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
A. Existing System Challenges
There are multiple private agencies operating in the
country to help the underprivileged people, but due to lack of
an end-to-end platform, there is a huge challenge [16] [17]
[18] to operationalise this at a broader level. This is
irrespective of millions of Donors out there who are willing to
help in this noble cause directly or indirectly. As a result, these
agencies operate only at independent levels as per their
capacity and reach. Some of the existing challenges are:
● Lack of platform for Donors to easily donate from
anywhere
● Limited connectivity between Donors and the needy
people (or Point-of-Contacts) – leads to reduced
coverage
● Lack of trust in the existing agencies – as Donors do not
know if their donation is reaching the right people or not
● Multiple items (relatively new and reusable) at homes or
business shops that can be donated to underprivileged
people are thrown as waste
● No global system to raise emergency alerts (SoS)
B. Solution: Video based Mobile App platform – D-Eazy
This paper proposes a Video based Mobile App platform
solution for Donors and recipients/Point-of-Contacts (PoCs)
to process the donations seamlessly. This proposed platform
offers Android and iOS based Mobile Application which can
be installed from Play Store and App Store respectively.
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Donors through this Application can post the items that
they want to donate along with item details and video.
Donations can be posted under different categories and pick-
up for those items can be scheduled through the donation
calendar. Group/Bulk donations can also be done as per the
defined schedule through the App.
PoCs from Agencies/NGOs can get themselves registered
and authenticated within this App. PoCs get the notifications
as soon as the Donors post their donations in their respective
locations. PoCs after checking the details of the donations can
then get the items picked up as per the scheduled date and
time or can propose new pick-up time. PoC while delivering
the donations to the needy people can post a video on the App
of the needy people receiving the donation, which will be
notified to actual Donors and thus completing the end-to-end
donation process. The proposed App platform also offers
some other important features including SOS which is used
to trigger emergency alerts for the immediate requirement of
blood or emergency medicines for the underprivileged
people. Donors on getting these emergency alerts at any place
in the world can immediately acknowledge and contact the
designated people.
C. D-Eazy Application Features
Some of the key features which App offers are:
● Registration of Donors and donation recipients/agencies’
representatives/Point-of-Contacts
● Authentication of Agency Representatives/Point-of-
Contacts
● Posting of donations under different categories including
Food/Ration, Clothes, Footwear, Books/Stationery,
Sports, Toys, Furniture, Phone/Computer, Money,
Birthday celebrations etc.
● Birthday celebrations’ cake/snacks donation
● Video based capture at the time of posting and delivering
● Quality verification through the checklist
● Group/Bulk donations
● In App donation calendar management
● Push Notifications
● Emergency alerts (SOS) for immediate medical need
(Blood/medicines)
III. APPLICATION PLATFORM DESIGN
D-Eazy App is built on Android and Apple/iOS platforms
in hybrid mode and the backend server is hosted on the AWS
cloud. High level architecture is illustrated in Fig. 1. Frontend
is based on React native and backend uses Python/Django
implementation.
The D-Eazy backend is created using Django framework
[3], [4], [5], [6] based on Python which provides a well-
defined web application and security module. The
Framework provides an interface to servers thus providing
the necessary containerization and interfaces with the
deployment servers. The framework provides an excellent
authentication module which can be used out of the box or
can be customized as per needs. The App connects with a
RDBS based MariaDB database as its data storage. Amazon's
SNS and SES services are used to send messages and emails
to users. The App also connects with the Amazon S3 bucket
to store large media files used and connects with the Firebase
console to send appropriate Push Notifications to users. The
application is deployed in an ec2 instance over cloud. The
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framework also consists of AI based Donation Prediction
Engine (AIDPE) which is used to efficiently allocate
PoC/Associate for donation pick-ups and to fast process the
video uploads and downloads.
The front-end is designed/developed using React native
libraries/modules [7] which is a JavaScript based hybrid App
creation framework. It makes use of a Bridge which is set of
libraries implemented in Java and JavaScript which does the
necessary interfacing of React code on native environment.
Node JS (acts as metro server), JavaScript components, that
provides the code reusability for smooth UI and events for
both Android/iOS platforms [8]. The UI states such as users
login information or donation data and other App actions are
managed using Redux [9] which is state management library
based on Flux architecture [10] where each user action such
as a button click triggers a series of actions which sends an
update to the application state based on the type of action
(Action type like request to login, create donation, get
donation list etc.). This Action type further dispatches
appropriate data (response from Rest API) to the reducers
which are responsible for state management and consistent
update of application state even in case of concurrency.
Redux is also used to provide the data hiding security and
updating props. The app also receives the FCM push
notifications for the specific events from the server.
A. AI Based Donation Prediction Engine (AIDPE)
One of the key components of D-Eazy Application is
AIDPE (AI based Donation Prediction Engine) which
includes two functions:
a) Efficient PoC/Associate Allocation: Predicts and
allocates the appropriate PoC/Associate for input
donation(s) in the specific area based on area score,
donation request score, pick-up schedule score,
associate score and Donor score
b) Adaptive Video Upload and Download
Processing: Before uploading the video, frontend
compresses the data through transcoding. Using
AIDPE, based on the user's device and the donation
request, the video is converted to the most suitable
codecs and triggers the Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR)
Engine by providing versions of best suited quality
and lower versions. The ABR engine then checks
the device’s internet capability and streams data on
the most optimal bitrate to provide a seamless
experience.
1) Efficient PoC/Associate Allocation
One of the key requirements of the D-Eazy Application is
to connect each Donation pickup Request raised by a Donor
to a right picking NGO/Associate partner. AIDPE of the
application is built which helps in predicting or allocating a
best possible pickup partner for each donation request to
cover as much pickups as possible using optimal strength of
partner resources as well as the time and well-being of the
associates. Fig. 2 describes the AIDPE flow to find a best
suitable Associate.
The Allocation engine though equipped with the aim of
classifying or searching out a single or list of associates for
each pickup requires more than just classification. There is a
cluster of common categories of inputs which is used for the
decision making. These inputs then need to be mapped to a
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score to reach at an overall decisive score which can be
achieved using a regressive approach. Thus, the overall result
can be achieved by combining all three main categories for
algorithm that is Classification [11], Clustering [12] and
Regression [13]. The Allocation process starts with clustering
of inputs into common categories where each input is given a
score for each user. The classifications and input scoring
criteria are:
A) Pick Up Score (PUS):
Pick-up areas are currently based on Pin codes and will be
provisioned later to even provide finer grid sizes using
Google S2 [14] library. Following input parameters are
considered:
a) Serve-ability (S): This input makes use of the feedback
provided by associates on prior assignments regarding the
accessibility and ease of navigation of area, If the area is not
yet served, a default score of medium serve-ability is
provided. The score range is from 0 - 5, where 0 implies
impossible to serve and 5 defines easily navigable and
accessible areas.
b) Request Frequency (RF): The input deals with the volume
of donations arising for an area and makes use of 7-day
moving average [15]. to represent a score-able quantity. The
score is determined by the range in which the average lies and
is assigned a no. between 0 and 5, 0 representing no volume
and 5 representing high volume.
c) Associate Density (AD): Defines the available associates
for the given area, with added weights to cater associates
working in multiple areas. Like other parameters the score is
calculated between 0 and 5, with 0 as unavailable and 5 as
most available.
Considering above input parameters, a function is applied to
get an aggregated score:
𝑃𝑈𝑆 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔2 ((𝑆 + 𝐴𝐷) ∗ 𝛼 + 𝑅𝐹/𝛽)
𝛼=
2.75 (𝐷𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠
[𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒])
𝛽 = 0.5 (𝐷𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠
[𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡])
B) Donation Request Score (DRS):
Each donation request is unique, since user can select out of
wide variety of donation categories, with variable volume of
items and item weights.
a. Donation Category (DC): Each donation lies in one of the
pre-defined categories and based on the type, a score is
attached, since few donations are more time sensitive than
others (ex: food, ration) thus they get a higher score in the
index while other gets a lower score. The scoring scale is
from 0 to 5, 5 being most time sensitive donation.
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b. Donation Quantity (Q) and Weight (W): Similar to
Donation Category some donations can have more weight
and some could be lighter, depending on the weight of a
quantity we might need more resources for certain pickups,
thus this input helps us provide a score for ease of operability
for a given discussion, thus heavier objects and larger
quantity are more difficult to operate so would have a lower
score on a scale of 0-5.
Considering above input parameters, a function is applied to
get an aggregated score:
(𝑊 2 + 𝑄2 )
𝐷𝑅𝑆 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔2 (𝐷𝐶 + 𝛾 (√ ))
𝑊∗𝑄
𝛾 = 1.2 (𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒
𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦)
C) Schedule Score (SS):
The date and time of each pickup is pre-selected by the user
and can be an important factor for determining the eligible
associate's selection.
a. Pickup Date and Time Volume Score (DTS): The date and
time for certain pickups can collide which can be beneficial
to sequence multiple pickups for a given associate but can
also be nightmare if the volume of a given area exceeds the
total capacity of associates. Thus, a balance needs to be set to
have an optimum value thus the score range for this input is
between -2 and +2, where -2 implies too much volume or too
less volume while +2 represents an optimal volume.
b. Event on scheduled calendar day score (ES): There are
possibilities that a Donation falls on days when there is an
event or festival, thus making it difficult for pickups to go
through, thus these days need to be marked with low score
depending on the extent and range of reason. 0 being a
national level holiday and 5 being a normal day.
Considering above input parameters, a function is applied to
get an aggregated score:
𝑆𝑆 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔2 ((𝐷𝑇𝑆 + 2) ∗ 𝜏 + 𝐸𝑆)
𝜏 = 1.8 (𝐷𝑇𝑆 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑆 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒
𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑
𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑)
D) Associate Score (AS):
Probably the most important parameter in the whole process
is the associate themselves, all other parameters can add to
accuracy of selection.
a. Associate Availability (AA): Since an Associate can serve
a limited area, we need to score an associate on basis of the
same and if associate is not available owing to planned or
unplanned leave or is not interested in pickup of some
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donation. A score from 0 to 5 is provided considering the
areas served and their closeness to the pickup area in focus
and other availability conditions, setting 5 as most available
and 0 as unavailable.
b. Associates load (L) and efficiency (E): Even though an
associate can be available but can be so occupied that it's
impossible to take up another delivery, Efficiency of
associates are also considered based on their previous
completed assignments and feedbacks collected overtime.
The load and efficiency are again mapped on a scale of 0 to
5, 0 representing a loaded and not efficient associate and 5
with an un-loaded and efficient.
Considering above input parameters, a function is applied to
get an aggregated score:
𝐸 classify if an Associate can be used for Donation Pickup or
𝐴𝑆 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔2 ((𝐴𝐴 + 1) + 𝛿 ∗ (𝐿 ∗ ( )))
1+𝐸
𝛿 = 0.8 (𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎
ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔
𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒))
E) Donor Score (DS):
Just like making decision on Associate Score, we need to
evaluate the Donor by whom the request is originated.
a. Donor's Donation History Status (DH): Though most of
time the users commit to their donation, yet sometimes they
have to cancel up for some reason, since it occurs rarely, we
can detect a pattern if some users are notoriously putting
donations just to cancel most of them and either reject or
reduce priority.
Considering above input parameters, a function is applied to
get an aggregated score:
𝐷𝑆 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔2 (𝐷𝐻)1/𝜌
𝜌 = 3(𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒
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𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
Overall Select-ability Score (OSS):
After creation of above scores a final select-ability score is
created for each associate tried for each donation.
𝑂𝑆𝑆 = 𝑃𝑈𝑆 + 𝑆𝑆 + 𝐷𝑅𝑆 + 𝜖 ∗ 𝐴𝑆 + 𝐷𝑆/𝜕
𝜖 = 2.4(𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑢𝑡)
𝜕 = 1.5 (𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙)
Final Assigned Associate (FAA):
This Overall Select-ability Score (OSS) is then used to
not, an ideal Overall Select-ability Score (OSS) is also
calculated with all constant factors taken along with best
factors for a Donation and compared to score of each
Associate, the associate with maximum score is then
considered capable for Pickup and in case of a tie, Associate
score is used to determine the better suited Partner. In case of
another tie, round robin approach is used.
𝐹𝐴𝐴 = max (𝑂𝑆𝑆)
Operational Efficiency:
The overall efficiency of algorithm is around 73% as per
initial simulated results when tested over a simulated set of
5000 test donations with 800 Dummy associates, spread over
different pin codes of Delhi, India. Next step is to try multiple
iterations with larger dataset and different damping
coefficient to achieve a target accuracy of over 90%.
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Fig. 1. D-Eazy Application Platform Architecture

The Application need not only to support all these

2) Adaptive Video Upload and Download Processing
Since the essence of the Application lies in its capability
to provide videos of donation content and their delivery to the
beneficiaries, it is of foremost importance that the application
can handle a huge magnitude of video data in both input and
output streams. Another factor that needs to be addressed in
this regard is, a native app’s capability of serving a profusion
of devices, which can have varying types for video recording.
different aptitudes for video data but also need to maintain an
eminent bitrate while keeping the data size to as low as
possible. To satisfy these requirements, AIDPE uses adaptive
to bitrate (ABR) algorithm while compressing the video data
in transcoding phase and switching of codecs to support the
plethora of devices used. The advantage of ABR over the
traditional approaches is that it allows the video provider to
create a different video for each of the screen sizes (or

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devices) that user wishes to target. Also, the ABR algorithm the user and changes the bitrate or quality as per the results
takes into consideration the internet connectivity speeds of thus resulting in minimum to almost no buffering.

Fig. 2. AIDPE Engine flow for PoC/Associate Allocation

The compression is done while the data is uploaded to
reduce the data size and upload time. This enables storage on
the cloud servers to be more compact and increases the
availability by reducing the size and standardizing a codec.
Once data upload is complete, the video library takes care of
identifying and converting the data into multiple codecs so
that the data is available cross platform on all servable
devices and then provide data to users at best possible quality.
This transformation of video data is achieved in different
modules at different stage in the application:
• Video upload: When a video upload request is initiated
the frontend processes the data and returns a transcoded
version of video ensuring reduced data size yet ensuring
acceptable quality levels.
• Video Storage: Once video upload is completed the
application triggers a service to convert the video to a
default codec and store various codec possibilities that
can be served by the application for given video data.
• Video download/view/stream: When a user requests to
view/download the requested video, the application
executes below two steps:
o Based on the user's device and the donation request,
the video is converted to the most suitable codecs
and triggers the Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Engine by
providing versions of best suited quality and lower
versions.
o The ABR engine then checks the device’s internet
capability and streams data on the most optimal
bitrate to provide a seamless experience.
The various phases of video transformation are represented
in Fig. 3:

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Fig. 3. AIDPE Engine flow for Video encode-decode

a. In Recent donations, a list will be shown

IV. WORKING OF APPLICATION (SAMPLE FLOWS) and after clicking on the list item, the user
A. Application functional flow can complete/edit after redirecting to a
related screen according to the donation
Fig. 4 below depicts the overall flow of the application
status.
including Donor and NGO/POC context. Donors and PoC
i. For SOS a list is shown, and
can use this operational flow for the donation as per their
user can check and donate for
respective roles. The D-Eazy functional flow has the
individual SOS.
following steps:
b. In Donate now section, there are four steps
1. App starts with React and related libraries
to complete donation (Content form >
2. Node JS metro server gets started
Upload video > Address selection >
3. App enters the main UI thread, and the user can perform
Preview)
an action via login with the server
c. My donations section shall show all the
4. All services and actions will be managed using Redux.
donations for that user.
Response/Auth will be dispatched to Reducers > Store
and update every prop for container on every state
2. PoC:
change using Redux.
a. Main screen contains three sections (Home,
5. Login/Registration will be same for POC/DONOR
Pending donations, All donations)
6. If a user is logged in, he will be redirected to the Home
b. Home will contain two sections (Requested
Screen
donations, Trigger SOS)
7. Donor:
i. In requested donation a list of
o Main Screen contains three sections (Home, Donate
specific donations requested by
now, My donations)
PoC are triggered and shown.
o Home tab contains two sections (Recent donations,
ii. For Trigger SOS, POC will fill
SOS).
up the related SOS details as per
the requirement and submit

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c. Pending donation section will contain three
steps (Confirm donation > Pickup complete
> Complete donation)
d. All donation sections will consist of all
related donations.
Fig. 4.
B. Working of the D-Eazy Application
1) Donor and PoC Registration
Donors and PoCs can register through the App for their
respective roles, and they will be authenticated. Fig. 5 shows
the screenshots for the registration page and signup pages for
the Donor and NGO.
2) Individual donation under specific category
Donors can post donations under specific category
including Food/Ration, Clothes, Footwear,
Books/Stationery, Sports, Toys, Furniture,
Phone/Computer, Money, Birthday celebrations etc.
Donors can fill the details of the donation including
video of items to be donated and then initiate the
donation while providing pick-up address and preferred
time for pick-up. The notification will be sent to PoC
covering that location/region. PoC on receiving the
notification can confirm the pick-up time or suggest new
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Donor/PoC can logout and will be redirected to the login
screen.
D-Eazy Functional Flow
pick-up time. PoC can then arrange a pick-up of the
donation and handover the same to the underprivileged
recipient. Short videos while donating to the end users
will be recorded and uploaded on the app by the PoC,
which can be acknowledged by the Donor. Fig. 6 shows
the screenshots of the application when the Donor
initiates the donations.
3) Group donations
D-Eazy provides an option for Donors to do group
donations under “Group Donor” category wherein one Donor
can donate a part of the overall bulk donation bucket.
Different Donors (unknown to each other) can contribute to
complete the whole donation for any langar etc. Once the
donation bucket is ready, pickup is arranged, and handover is
done accordingly. Fig. 7 shows the screenshot of the Group
donation feature of the D-Eazy application.
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Fig. 5. D-Eazy Application (a) Registration page (b) Sign Up for a Donor (c) Sign Up for an NGO

Fig. 6. D-Eazy Application (a) Donate Now page (b) Page for Ration/Grocery donations

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4) Birthday Cheers
D-Eazy provides one unique feature i.e., “Birthday
Cheers” (Fig, 8) to enable unprivileged family to celebrate
their young kid's birthday through a surprise cake and snacks
donation on that particular day. PoC can mark dates in the
calendar as per the kid's birthday which is then visible to all
Donors on the App. Donors can then select their preferred
donation date and book the birthday donation. PoC can pick-
up the donation including cake and snacks (with guaranteed
minimum quantity) from the Donor's place and handover the
same to underprivileged family for celebrating their kid's
birthday hence spreading smiles around.

5) SOS/Emergency alerts
D-Eazy provides SOS or emergency alert option wherein
NGO PoC can post an immediate/critical need of Blood or
medicine for any underprivileged person(s). On getting this
emergency alert/notification along with contact details of the
requester, interested Donors can respond back with his
contact details and acknowledgement showing his interest.
Donors can call the requester and help offline. Fig. 9 shows
the SOS/Emergency alert feature of the D-Eazy application.
Fig. 7. Group donation feature of the D-Eazy application

Fig. 8. Birthday Cheers

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Fig. 9. SOS feature usage of the D-Eazy application

6) Notifications/Alerts 7) Periodic Scheduling of donation

Donors and PoCs get notifications/alerts on all the critical
events which can be accessed anytime on the notification
center within D-Eazy App as shown in Fig. 10.
Fig. 10. Notifications/Alerts
D-Eazy provides a donation calendar which can be used
by Donor for scheduling periodic donations. The similar
calendar is used by PoC to manage and process all the
incoming donations.
V. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE
D-Eazy, a video-based application donation platform,
provides an efficient way of connecting mass Donors to
recipients or Point-of-Contacts for donating food and
essentials to poor people while sitting at their homes/places.
The application developed for Android and iOS provides
Donors an option of posting the individual or group donations
under multiple categories as per their preferred pick-up
schedule while ensuring adequate quality. The application
also gives options to PoCs for processing the received
donation and handing over the same to the desired recipient.
Application provides video-based interface to Donor and PoC
for posting a video of actual donation at the time of initiating
a donation and while handing over the donation to desired
person enabling mutual trust. It further enables push
notifications on specific events between Donors and PoC.
One of the important features of this App is SoS/Emergency
alerting wherein PoCs broadcasts towards Donors about the
emergency medical need of blood or critical medicines for the
poor people. Donors can then accept this immediate request
and contact/help the needy people. One of the important
aspects of the application is AI based Donation Prediction
Engine (AIDPE) which provides intelligent allocation of PoC
based on various factors and adaptive video upload/download
processing. The application has been tested for few sample
locations and NGO PoCs in the Delhi NCR region and is
found to be very useful and effective.
As part of the future scope, applications will be enhanced
to integrate with third party pick and drop app vendors to
facilitate automatic donation pick-up/delivery. Also, PoC
interface will further be enhanced to provide options for
managing local drives and donations end to end. AIDPE shall

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predictability.

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