Team Genesis - Sahara

[WarlordTed]

Hackference2018*

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Project Title*

Sahara: Blockchain based Disaster Management System

Project Description*

In the life taking events of natural disasters like flood, earthquake, or hurricane, often NGO's find it difficult to plan and distribute the required supplies such as food, - water, shelter, clothes, and medicine.
The main reason for this is that NO common platform exists where all NGOs/volunteers/others can follow up on the event relief status on a real-time basis.
They may find it difficult to know how much supplies are required, which other NGO's are actively helping and present status of missing people.
Also there is no transparency in the distribution of supplies or the use of money that citizens or organizations donate, This also becomes the chief reason that majority of citizens don't provide any donations for they are not at all sure if the money is going to be used for the good or not.
Our project "Sahara" is a Blockchain and RTC based application for Disaster Management.
We have designed a common web portal designed where NGOs can come together in order to collectively fight against Disaster.
The application uses an EOS based blockchain as its database which maintains and updates in real time giving the information that which particular asset such as cloth, food, medicine etc is required at the disaster site and in how much quantity.
NGOs can then be informed that which assets are actually required.
Suppose then an NGO promises to donate 10,000 cloth units, then deployer for the chain will issue x number of system’s token corresponding to 10,000 cloth units in NGO’s account.
Volunteer of NGO can then go on the site and can sign a transaction between NGO and Citizen using our mobile application synced with the same blockchain, for a particular asset/status, which will then be updated on the web portal in real time.
Each transaction will result in debiting the account of NGO by tokens corresponding to asset and once the NGO completes its promised number of donations, the account will come back to zero token balance ensuring trust.
Thus each and every transaction will be updated on blockchain ensuring no point of corruption/fraud and boosting the trust of citizens to come forward and donate more.
Blockchain also solves the problem of tracking citizens, as Volunteer can update the status (living, injured, missing etc) of citizens being reflected in portal, so one can check if his/her loved ones are doing well or not.
Also citizens who are willing to volunteer can be rewarded with tokens depending on number of work hours, or how much asset they donate, thus creating a motivation amongst population to provide a helping hand.
Application has also been integrated with Real time communication capabilities to help Rescue teams communicate with each other over a voice/video call.

Project Limitations

As internet connectivity is often disrupted during a disaster, there came a challenge to set up a network in disaster location. For this we propose a Swarm intelligence based design to construct a flying ad-hoc network over the disaster site. We looked on this part before hackathon but it is yet to be completed.

Project Presentation PPT

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a5h0gx0CstmeXKaDV2dwgx7WEAaByp7CWxOnbj76W8E/edit#slide=id.gcb9a0b074_1_0

Project Demo link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bzYG7R8Tj1G5pbc8FEOwZ2jkNMq4PNrj/view

Project Repository*

https://github.com/WarlordTed/Sahara

Tech Stack*

EOS for smart contract Development
React Native
vue.js
node.js
openGL
Scipy
Numpy
python
cpp
javascript

Team Members and Contact info*

@samarthchandrawat
@PAWAN-PRAJAPATI
@WarlordTed