Bharat Beacon
CODE2CREATE 4.0 · BEST 1ST-YR TEAMIn a disaster, authorities need to see where help is needed, right now — not after the reports are collated.
Bharat Beacon tackles disaster management across three phases — preemptive risk mitigation, mid-crisis response, and post-crisis recovery. It's an IoT-driven system where physical devices transmit distress signals to a central platform. Built at Code2Create 4.0 by ACM VIT, where the team won Best First Year Team.
I built the Government Portal: a real-time dashboard plotting incoming distress calls as pinpoints on an interactive MapBox map. To stay current without a persistent connection, I used HTTP polling to continuously fetch the latest device signals and metadata.
SIGNAL
IoT devices transmit distress
IoT
POLL
fetch latest signals + metadata
HTTP polling
MAP
plot pinpoints in real time
MapBox API
RESPOND
authorities triage live emergencies
dashboard
I owned the authorities' view — a live geographic overview of every active emergency:
live distress map
MapBox pinpoints for each incoming signal
HTTP polling
fresh signals without a persistent socket
device metadata
context attached to every distress call
three-phase model
mitigation, response, and recovery