VayuBuddy: IIT Gandhinagar researchers develop chatbot to make air quality data accessible

researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have developed a chatbot that processes queries from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), analyses the data and delivers answers in a layman’s language or through visualisations such as graphs and heatmaps.

A chatbot is a computer programme that simulates and processes human conversations as if they are communicating with a real person.
The chatbot — VayuBuddy — has been designed to make air quality data accessible to everyone, said the researchers. VayuBuddy uses artificial intelligence to respond to the queries about air quality, according to the researchers.