WaveGuard: A flood monitoring and rescue system

Floods hit millions of people every year around the world. In Bangladesh, flooding is a common phenomenon that is often caused by heavy rainfall, monsoon river flooding, and tropical cyclones. In Bangladesh, during the recent floods in 2024, more than 5 million people were affected due to inadequate early warning systems, coordination of rescue operations, and relief distribution. To address the requirements for sophisticated technologies and interconnected systems to monitor, manage, and contribute to flood-based disasters, we present WaveGuard. WaveGuard is a flood monitoring and rescue system web application embodying volunteer and victim authentication, dashboard for managing personal information, sharing nearby rescue locations, and effective collaboration between victims and volunteers, real-time location-based flood situation sharing, and providing alert insights about those locations with 77.57% accuracy in location recognition as a named entity and 94.41% accuracy in severity classification. A donation system, integrated via the bKash online payment interface, also aids fundraising. WaveGuard is developed using widely adopted technologies and frameworks, making it adaptable to other disaster response scenarios beyond floods.