CoRover™ is an award winning Mobile App which provides social platform to the travellers to get connected, synergize and help each other while travelling together in a Train, Bus and Flight – worldwide. CoRover has group chat as well as private chat options with privacy control features. Chat works with and even without Internet! And, many other travel related features including Hotel Booking; Call for Medicine during Travel; Play Game, Offers etc.

Current Problem: There is no platform currently where the passengers can know who is travelling with them to synergize and help each other. Importantly – currently there is no viable solution to do group chat without Internet.

Solution: Co-Rover

CoRover is a Mobile App – provides platform for the travellers to get connected with the co-passengers travelling together in a bus, train or flight. This can be used across the globe. Patent has been applied for CoRover soution. Available for Android as well as iOS users (as B2C offering).

CoRover also has B2B offering as API/SDK for other apps to use our technology (Group Chat & Private Chat | Internet & Internet-Less Chat). And, many other travel related features.

USP: Internet-Less Chat.

Video: https://youtu.be/vpVsW2X6dm0

Features:

• Very light weight (Size ~5 MB)
• Internet Chat – Group Chat and Private Chat with image sending support
• Privacy Control Settings
• Share Option
• Push Notifications
• Travel Related Features & Offers (including Travel Buddy, Hotel Booking, CoRover Connect, Offers etc.)
• Internet-Less Chat using Bluetooth and WiFi-Direct

• Private Chat using Bluetooth v4 (Low Energy): ~30 ft. Range – Tested
• Group Chat using WiFi Direct: ~300 ft. Range – Tested
• Local DB Support
• Server Sync when user accesses Internet (WiFi)
• Notifications
• Encrypted Messages

Benefits for Users/Passengers/Travellers (B2C):

• Internet-Less Chat (Using Bluetooth v4 Low Energy & WiFi-Direct):
• Saves cost and allow users to chat in remote places where there is no mobile network or internet access.
• Very useful during crises, natural disasters, accidents in any hilly area, etc.
• Passengers can interact with each other without internet in a Bus, Flight, Train compartment, or any other place within the range of 300 feet.

• Travel Buddy – for any travel related needs
• Hotel Booking – Best Deals Worldwide, Pay after Stay! Starting Rs. 260 ($4) per night
• Call for any Help in Indian Trains – Medical Emergency, Cleanliness, Food etc
• Play a Game – if feeling bored
• Travel Related Offers
• Call Anytime
• CoRover Connect – To Connect with co-passengers as well as all the active users of CoRovers
• and many more benefits…

• Cost Share & Save
• Users can find someone who is ready to share a taxi or hotel room if travelling alone.

• Medical Help
• Search for a doctor or physiotherapist during the trip and ask for medicine in case of medical emergency.

• Security
• Help find a thief by clicking and broadcasting the picture in the trip’s group chat.

• Quick Feedback
• Users can share the feedback about the services with the service provider and also with co-passengers.

• Share and Exchange
• Books, Medicines, Movies, Music, Knowledge, Information, News, Seat, etc.

• Search and Connect with
• Doctor, Physiotherapist, Astrologer, Palmist, Mate, People with same interest/hobby/occupation, travelling together etc.

• Free & No-Ads
• This app is absolutely free for users to download, and with No Ads.

• Innovative, Secure and Great Performance
• CoRover is using AWS Cloud Services for better Performance, coupled with the robust tech stack: Linux, MySQL, PHP. The platform is very much secure as well. Filed Patent for the innovative idea & product.

• Simple & Intuitive to Use with Great User Experience
• CoRover hs an option for users to register & login though Facebook or native user registration. CoRover is using some third party APIs as well from Google and Facebook, for better user experience. Very light weight!

• Good Rating & Reviews
• Currently CoRover has 10,000+ downloads. 4.6 ratings (out of 5) in android play store.

Benefits for Travel Companies: 

• Monetization: Cross-Sell & Up-Sell Opportunity
• You may push some offers related to the city users are going to. You may push messages to the travellers about the hotel offers, and other travel related offers, also the last minute hotel room rate discount. Also, the upgrade offers for the users.

• Better way of Communication with your Customers
• Any delay in the trip due to any operational reasons can be communicated using this platform. Even notification can be sent if a station comes on the way and some passengers have to get down. This is more interactive, collaborative and social way of communicating with your users.

• Enhanced Customer Loyalty
• You are letting users know and use this app for their benefits. Since it is free for users – your customers will get this as an additional free service from you and the they would be more loyal to you as none of your competitors have this service.

• Analytics from Internet & Internet-Less Chat
• You can study the consumer behaviour from the chat (internet as well as internet-less chat). CoRover has DB Sync mechanism even for the internet-less chat to sync the chat messages with the server from user’s local DB when the user enables WiFi (Internet).

• Feedback Response
• You can even respond to the users’ feedback instantly.

• Right Target Audience
• You will be getting the right target users to push specific ads and offers.

• Scalable Platform
• The servers (Cloud: Amazon Web Services) which CoRover is using are very much scalable and secure. This will help us seamlessly support with good performance when the users and the trips grow.

Benefits for App Developers (B2B): 

• App developers can use our chat features within their App

• Easy & Fast Integration
• Light weight SDK
• Internet Chat – Group Chat and Private Chat with image sending support
• Push Notifications
• Internet-Less Chat using Bluetooth and WiFi-Direct

• Private Chat using Bluetooth v4 (Low Energy): ~30 ft. Range – Tested
• Group Chat using WiFi Direct: ~300 ft. Range – Tested
• Local DB Support
• Server Sync when user accesses Internet (WiFi)
• Notifications
• Encrypted Messages

Video Link: https://youtu.be/-dE7eCvCch8