Beyond the device: Aagah, DeviceCloud and the Rakshak Control Centre
Sensors and sirens do the work on site. Three pieces of software make sure the right people can see it and act on it.
A river sensor that nobody can see is not much use. A siren that cannot be reached from a control room is a risk. The hardware is only half of a warning system. The other half is software that lets different people see what is happening, in the way that suits them.
ClimMaTech has three pieces of software, each built for a different person.
Aagah: for people
Aagah is the ClimMaTech mobile app, for anyone who lives or works near a river or flood-prone area.
- Flood forecasts: how river conditions are expected to change, so you can plan before the water rises.
- Weather forecast: current conditions, an hourly forecast and a five-day outlook for your location, or for any place you search for.
- Early warnings: where ClimMaTech hardware is installed near you, warnings are delivered to your phone.
- Flood safety tips: what to do before, during and after a flood, one tap away.
DeviceCloud: for customers
DeviceCloud is the cloud for your ClimMaTech devices. You sign in from any browser to see what you have installed and what it is measuring.
- A device list and map showing where each device is and whether it is online.
- Live readings such as water level and surface velocity, with signal strength and battery status.
- History and trends, as charts of past readings.
- Alerts when readings cross a threshold, with a log of recent events.
- Reports built from your data, ready to share, and tools to add colleagues to your account.
Rakshak Control Centre: for operators
Agencies, utilities and districts that run many sirens need to manage them as a network, not one at a time. The Rakshak Control Centre is the web application for that. It is coming soon.
- See the whole network on a live map and fleet view, with healthy and attention-needed sirens shown clearly.
- Register and configure sirens, setting each one's location, horn direction and the area its sound covers.
- Define alert areas by drawing on the map, picking districts, or uploading your own boundaries, so an alert reaches only the sirens it should.
- Run drills and live alerts, choosing the area, the tone or voice message and the duration.
- Approval and control: live alerts need a second person's approval, and authorised staff can stop an alert at any time.
- Confirm delivery, seeing which sirens received and sounded each alert as it happens.
- Roles and an audit trail, with separate roles for operators, approvers, technicians and administrators, and a log of every action.
It also accepts alerts from official agencies in the standard CAP format, and from other systems through an API.
Read more about the Control Centre.
How they fit together
| Who it is for | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| Aagah | People in the community | Forecasts and early warnings on a phone |
| DeviceCloud | Customers with ClimMaTech devices | See your devices, readings, trends and alerts |
| Rakshak Control Centre | Operators of many sirens | Configure, run and monitor a siren network |
All three draw on the same data. Devices measure on site, readings go securely to the ClimMaTech cloud, and each piece of software shows the part of the picture that its user needs.
Why it matters
Warning systems fail at the joins between people and equipment: someone cannot see a device is offline, an operator cannot confirm a siren sounded, a resident never gets the message. Software built alongside the hardware closes those gaps, so each person in the chain can see what they need and act on it.
To see how the software and the hardware combine for a river, a dam or a city, explore our solutions.