01
Location
Anonymous H-IDs pinned by GPS. No names on the map — a location is not a person.
REGISTERS IN 2 MIN→
AQ/FLD-MANUAL — DOC № 01
Don't just map the flood.Map who needs help first.
Aquora is a software-only triage system for flood response. It reads hazard, household and live need together — then ranks every family P1–P3, with the reason printed next to the rank.
CLIENT — NDRF / MHA, SIH26191
SCOPE — SOFTWARE ONLY, NO SENSORS
OUTPUT — RESCUE LIST, P1 FIRST
SCOPE — SOFTWARE ONLY, NO SENSORS
OUTPUT — RESCUE LIST, P1 FIRST
SCROLL — THE WATER IS RISINGPHOTO: FIELD ARCHIVE, UNTREATED
FIG. 01 — THE PROBLEMPG. 02
Same flood. Never the same urgency.
Every monsoon, the maps come out. Red polygons over villages, blue shading over fields. They show the water beautifully — and the people not at all. A red zone treats an 82-year-old on insulin exactly the same as three healthy adults with two days of rice. That is not triage. That is geography.
Aquora starts where the hazard map stops. It registers each household anonymously, profiles what makes it fragile, listens to what it asks for — then ranks who gets help first, and writes down why. Same water, different clock.
- (i)HazardWhere the water is, and where it's going.
- (ii)HouseholdWho actually lives inside the polygon.
- (iii)VulnerabilityAge, mobility, medicine — what breaks first.
- (iv)NeedEvacuation, water, food, shelter — asked, not assumed.
- (v)PriorityP1, P2, P3. Every rank carries its reason.
- (vi)ActionCrews, boats, beds — dispatched P1 first.
SEC. 02 — WORKFLOW
Four moves, in order.
Keep scrolling sideways. Each card is one move of the chain — the same chain the control room follows at 2 a.m.
02
Vulnerability
Age, mobility, medicine, infants. An 82-year-old is not three adults.
PROFILED ONCE→
03
Priority
Need × fragility × hazard, fused into P1 / P2 / P3 — each with its reason.
RECALCULATED LIVE→
04
Action
Rescue list P1-first, shelter match, gap flagged, crew dispatched.
DISPATCHED → RESOLVED→
FIG. 02 — TWO MAPSPG. 03
Two maps. Only one saves lives.
TABLE A — WHERE IS THE WATER?
REDWater rising. Evacuate now.
ORANGEHigh. P2 crews on standby.
YELLOWWatch. Check P3 stocks.
GREENLower. Staging ground.
Necessary. Not sufficient.
TABLE B — WHO GOES FIRST?
P1
Immediate
H-01, H-03 — boat + medicine, tonight.
P2
Urgent
H-04 — food + water within 24 hrs.
P3
Standard
H-02 — monitor, top up later.
High hazard + high vulnerability = highest.
SEC. 03 — DS2, THE CORE
Who goes first, and why.
Priority is arithmetic, not mystery: vulnerability + need urgency + hazard severity. Rules anyone can audit — no black box deciding who lives.
20 HOUSEHOLDS, DEMO SET — SORTED DESCENDING, P1 FIRST
DOSSIER № H-01P1 — Immediate
82 years old, bedridden, needs insulin kept cold.
Boat evacuation + medicine, tonight.
WHY — CANNOT WALK. COLD-CHAIN MEDICINE. RED ZONE, WATER AT 4 FT AND RISING.
SCORE0.0
DOSSIER № H-03P1 — Immediate
Two infants and a wheelchair user.
Evacuation boat that fits a chair.
WHY — INFANTS + MOBILITY AID + NIGHT WATER RISE. CANNOT SELF-EVACUATE.
SCORE0.0
DOSSIER № H-04P2 — Urgent
68, lives alone.
Food + drinking water within a day.
WHY — ELDERLY, ONE DAY OF STOCK LEFT, ORANGE ZONE. BECOMES P1 IN 24 HRS.
SCORE0.0
DOSSIER № H-02P3 — Standard
Three healthy adults.
15 litres of water, when convenient.
WHY — ABLE-BODIED, YELLOW ZONE, TWO DAYS OF STOCK. WATCH, DON'T RUSH.
SCORE0.0
NOTE — RANKS MOVE. AS STOCK RUNS OUT OR WATER RISES, P3 BECOMES P2 BECOMES P1. DISPATCH MARKS A DOSSIER “OUT,” RESOLUTION CLOSES IT, THE LIST RE-SORTS ITSELF.
SEC. 04 — DS3 + DS4, SHELTER MATH
A safe site that can't hold people isn't safe.
800 PEOPLE NEED RELOCATION — EFFECTIVE = MIN(SHELTER, WATER, SANITATION, MEDICAL, FOOD)
Site A
Govt. High School, North Bank
0/ 800 BEDS
SHELTER83%
WATER100%
SANITATION75%
FOOD100%
No — short 350
Short by 350 people. Walk away, or reinforce it first.
Site B
Community Hall + ITI Block
0/ 800 BEDS
SHELTER100%
WATER94%
SANITATION89%
FOOD83%
Yes, split — short 50
Short by 50 people. Take it — split the rest across a second site and send water.
Site C
Riverside LP School
0/ 800 BEDS
SHELTER60%
WATER80%
SANITATION70%
FOOD100%
No — short 500
Short by 500 people. Walk away, or reinforce it first.
“Site B holds 750 of 800. Take it — and find beds for fifty more.”
AVAILABLE = MAX − OCCUPIED − 10% P1 BUFFER. GREEN <70% · YELLOW 70–90 · ORANGE 90–100 · RED FULL.
SEC. 05 — DS4, OFFLINE
The network dies. The work doesn't.
Towers drown first. So Aquora works with no signal: every phone keeps its own copy, carries its neighbours' updates, and syncs when the sky clears. Trust is scored — newness, role, corroboration — never assumed.
Tested with signal off
QUEUE — LOCAL → PENDING → SYNCING → SYNCED
PACKETS — ROAD / SHELTER / EVAC / HAZARD
NEVER SENT — NAMES, MEDICAL, PHOTOS
PACKETS — ROAD / SHELTER / EVAC / HAZARD
NEVER SENT — NAMES, MEDICAL, PHOTOS
HONEST LIMIT — THE DEMO RELAYS OVER QR + HOTSPOT. FULL RADIO MESH NEEDS NATIVE CODE; THAT'S PHASE TWO AND WE SAY SO UP FRONT.
T+00 — STORE
Device A, no signal.
Road R17 marked BLOCKED. Saved on the phone itself — under 1KB, no names.
T+40 — CARRY
Volunteer B walks past.
The update hops phone-to-phone over a QR code and a hotspot. Nobody reads it; everybody carries it.
T+90 — FORWARD
B meets C at the bund.
Same tiny packet, one more hop. Still no names, no medical details — those never travel.
T+130 — SYNC
C finds one bar.
The packet uploads once, duplicates collapse, and the dashboard turns R17 red.
SEC. 06 — WHY IT MATTERS · PG. 07
Right person.Right resource. Right time.
(01)P1 goes first.The rescue list is sorted by explainable priority, not by who shouted loudest.
(02)750 of 800 is an answer.Capacity gaps are printed, not hidden — fifty people still need beds.
(03)Under 1KB travels.Anonymous packets hop phone-to-phone until one bar of signal appears.
(04)Built for SIH26191.Red zones, carrying capacity, relocation — the stated problem, answered plainly.
COLOPHON
From mapping locations to prioritizing people.
Explainable, human-centric decision support. Private by design, compatible with official systems. Next: one-community pilot, then official data. Floods today — cyclones, landslides and cloudbursts next.
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