More ofone million 250 thousand Cubans have the mobile application installedCola.cu that regulates queues and customer purchases in stores of the Caribe and Cimex chains in Havana, according to official sources.
With the software, the organizer can identify if a customer has recently registered in another queue to limit their access to the chosen store and “benefit” other buyers, explained a note from the official portal.Cubadebate.
Since the launch of the app in September 2020, more than 250 thousand people have benefited thanks to the detection of “recent buyers”, according to the software development team.
Cola.cu, created by the José Antonio Echeverría Technological University of Havana (CUJAE), has a mobile version that manages the queue in a specific store daily, and a desktop version that “allows you to unify all the information of the stores where it is established” .
As if it were a great achievement, the official media revealed that in more than two years of operation in all the municipalities of Havana, more than 130 thousand queues have been managed in 700 stores.
The report explained that this “automated systemrecords purchase history and allows us to identify the frequency with which people go to these facilities, as well as the products they purchase.”
By viewing the history, “recent buyers” of a certain product are detected toreject joining the queue and prioritize customers who have not obtained the product in question.
“Taking into account the rules established by the Municipal Defense Council, the apk allowslimit the entry of the same person to a set of stores during the time set. Control of the movement of people and the demand for products is also achieved, allowing CDMs to make decisions about adjustments in distribution,” he stated.Cubadebate.
According to the note, the depressed supply for Cubans in the midst of the current economic crisis must be regulated based on work rules “dynamically approved by the Defense Councils of each municipality,” to determine the frequency of purchasing highly demanded products. like chicken or detergent.
The engineers who created the app are developing a second version that will have the possibility of connecting to the cloud "to achieve the exchange of information without the need for physical files", since the current one operates disconnected from the network and the data is synchronized daily through file sharing.
Although the implementation ofCola.cu It was proposed to put an end to “hoarders, collectors and resellers”, long lines form every day in the Cuban capital, and throughout Cuba, to try to get the offers that appear in the stores.
In the future they intend that the application can be used “in any region where several establishments are concentrated and people are free to buy from them.”
From thestart of operations On September 1, 2020, it was strictly determined that peopleThey could not buy in municipalities outside their place of residence.
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