MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122193 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 4, 2025, for 'community-based disaster response system with real-time coordination.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Bhawana Tyagi; Tapoprasad Tripathy; Saiteja Chekuri; and Shreyash Tiwari.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a community-based disaster response system comprising a mobile application interface configured to receive emergency requests from users and provide an interface for citizens and volunteers to interact with disaster response functionalities, backend services comprising real-time communication protocols utilizing Socket.IO for bidirectional data transmission, an automated processing system configured to process emergency requests in real-time and coordinate responses between multiple users, multi-role user support configured to differentiate between citizen users, volunteer users, and administrative users with role-based access control, an automated volunteer matching functionality configured to match available volunteers based on proximity to emergency locations and volunteer availability status, and a real-time alert distribution system configured to distribute location-based disaster notifications to users within specified geographic areas."
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