The problem EARLY SURAKSHA solves

'LIFE LOSS DUE TO DEADLY LIGHTNING STROKES'
Information about the lightning strokes is available with 'The Indian Meteorological Department' which has real time data that includes the details about lightning strokes 4 hours and 30 minutes prior.
We focus on disseminating the information within the required time. The people who live in remote areas are our main target as they are least exposed to early access of broadbanded information. This life saving 'Early Warning System' will be able to disseminate information about lightning directly to village.
In the targeted situation , registered users will also get Bulk SMS , notifications and mails will be sent to nearest evacuation bodies and gram panchayats of villages. Non- registered rural inhabitants will get SMS.

User is provided with a secure login, server collects weather data from renowed APIs of IMD. We also handle cases of remote areas using 'high pitch sound' through mobile speakers. In case of panic, SOS call making is provided.

The evolution that we have carried out in the Early warning sytem doesn't only help in saving lives and reduces property damage but also helps in gaining new weather datasets to optimize operations, analyze trends and protect infrastructural assests.

Challenges we ran into

1. Aries Weather provides minimal free hits so we had to do a lot of efforts in order to get accurate weather data without exceeding the given limit.
2. Since our MongoDB Plan was basic one so strategic planning to do efficient usage of limited hits was required.
3. We used DigitalOcean to deploy our server for the first time which was quite a mind boggling and brilliant learning experience.