Helping Hand is an Online and Offline Disaster Management System for Govt. of Assam with motive to help government and people of Assam during disaster. This project is a part of a solution developed for Smart India Hackathon 2018 that received 1st runner up prize
Assam residents face critical problems due to sudden and unexpected occurrence of disaster which leads to loss of life and property. This problem is faced every year, so our solution acts as an effective tool providing right information and services at the right time to the person in need at the critical time of disaster. We present an approach which comes effective for giving forecasting of expected disaster in advance, helps in evacuating masses to safe locations providing safe routes and also providing a common platform for volunteers to reach out to the affected people, for government to monitor the entire state, organizing people in shelter and their basic needs. Using interactive videos and simple step by step advice through SMS and push notification we empower user on how to react in such situations. During disaster the main issue is internet connectivity so we have also provided these entire features mentioned above in offline mode as well.
Helping Hand is an Online & Offline Disaster Management System for Govt. of Assam with motive to help government and people of Assam during disaster. Our system consists of three modules which are:
- Users can use SMS Help Service or IVRS to receive details about nearby shelters.
- Pre-disaster Transport Service Live Tracking.
- Forecasting expected disaster and providing precautionary measures in the form of text and videos.
- 24/7 support system through chat, SMS, calls.
- Providing a system capable of allowing users to communicate using a Bluetooth based mesh network at a time of no cellular network availability.
- Platform for volunteers to come forward to provide shelters and their professional expertise using SMS, social media and app.
- SMS Help Service and Web App for Shelter Authorities to update information like food, medicine facility, etc. and accordingly forward automatic requests to other shelters and ASDMA.
- Updating information of people at respective shelter with their photo.
- Interface for the control room to monitor the disaster using heat maps and information about shelters through database in the form of graphs and chart.
- Using Shelter Databases to get information about volunteers and emergency contacts of govt. professional like doctors, engineers who can be helpful in need.
- Using Databases and facial recognition to find lost members of your family.
- Broadcasting Pre-Disaster SMS to all the users
- Making people aware about fore coming disasters to reduce the impact using push notifications and SMS
- Provide guidance and personal safety measures to people to make them disaster ready
- Provide a system capable of advance weather forecasts.
- Evacuation of people to safety shelters before disaster using live tracking of disaster relief transports
- Provide a platform for users to volunteer in disaster relief activities
- Provide a system which will make all services available in offline mode using SMS flow, IVR and Bluetooth mesh network.
- Provide a mechanism for locating lost person using shelter database
- Provide a mechanism for ASDMA authorities to know about user issues from tweets and send reinforcements to the affected areas
- Provide a control panel for the government to monitor disaster situation
- Provide heat maps and shelter inventory management to ASDMA and shelter authorities
Currently our prototype supports the following features:
- Users can locate and get direction to the nearby shelters.
- Users can keep a live track of rescue transport vehicles to safely reach shelters.
- Users can volunteer to register their home as shelter.
- Users can get to know if their family members are safe in some other shelter.
- Performing Facial Recognition to search people unable to mention their identity.
- Providing weather information and precautionary measures for expected disaster in the form of text and videos
- Shelter Authorities can update information like food, medicine facility, etc. and accordingly forward automatic requests to other shelters and ASDMA.
- Admin can control the availability of disaster specific shelters for users
- User and shelter database available completely for the admin and shelter authorities to know the capacity of volunteer shelters and government shelters district wise.
- Interface for the control room to monitor the disaster using heat maps and information about shelters through database in the form of graphs and chart.
- Broadcasting Pre-Disaster SMS to all the users
- Users can use SMS Help Service or IVRS to receive details about nearby shelters.
- Providing a system capable of allowing users to communicate using a Bluetooth based mesh network at a time of no cellular network availability.
- Sahil Mhapsekar
- Archana Nanade