Malabar Institute students win national hackathon with flood-alert app
The six-member team built an offline-first early warning app for riverside panchayats.
A team of six B.Tech students won the national smart-governance hackathon with an offline-first flood alert app.
The app uses SMS fallbacks and community volunteers to relay river-level data when mobile networks fail. Two panchayats have agreed to pilot it this monsoon.