The Problem
During natural disasters, emergency response bottlenecks are often invisible — ambulances get stuck in the same congested routes everyone else is using, hospitals hit capacity without other facilities knowing, and no one has a real-time picture of where resources are available.
Every minute of delay in emergency response is life-or-death.
What Linedge does
Linedge is a real-time platform that coordinates emergency response across an entire city during a disaster event:
- Smart routing — calculates the fastest, least-congested path from incident to hospital, updating as conditions change
- Hospital load balancing — tracks bed availability across facilities and routes patients to the best option, not just the nearest
- Public alerts — notifies people in the area of road obstacles and suggests alternate routes
- Resource visibility — gives emergency coordinators a live map of ambulance positions, hospital capacity, and incident locations
Tech Stack
- Java + NodeJS (backend + routing engine)
- Firebase (real-time data sync)
- HTML5 + CSS3 (frontend)
- AI (congestion prediction + route optimization)
Recognition
2nd Runner Up — Hackathon (May 2021)