Lighthouse
Lighthouse is not an offline chatbot.
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On-device rules engine stores incidents, geotags reports, routes SOS to teams, and detects contradictions without any cloud model.
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Lighthouse is not an offline chatbot. It's an autonomous local disaster response agent that continues thinking, planning, and coordinating even when the network disappears.
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# Lighthouse ### Offline Emergency Assistant for iOS > **Help when you need it. Works offline.** --- # Overview Lighthouse is an **offline-first emergency assistant** for anyone in a crisis — not just trained responders. Open the app, see where you are on a map, describe what's happening by voice or text, and get **clear guidance on what to do next**. Under the hood it runs a **local agent** (on-device **rules engine**): it remembers incidents, geotags reports, routes SOS to the right teams, detects contradictions, and speaks responses aloud — **without cloud AI**. Built for the **Google DeepMind Bangalore Hackathon – Best Use of Gemma 4: Local-First Agents**, and designed so **anyone** can use it in an emergency. --- # The Problem During disasters such as: * Earthquakes * Floods * Landslides * Cyclones * Building collapses * Forest fires internet connectivity often disappears. Cloud AI assistants stop working. Offline chatbots only answer questions — they do **not**: * remember rescue operations * coordinate multiple incidents * recover from missing information * keep mission state * continuously plan This is where Lighthouse comes in. --- # Solution Lighthouse is a **map-first emergency app** with an autonomous on-device agent. 1. **Home (map)** — your GPS, MapKit map, *What to do* guidance, quick reports, voice mic 2. **Agents** — SOS to ambulance, police, fire, disaster, or child-protection teams by location + country 3. **Guide** — full field conso