It was during the peak monsoon season when I read a distress report from a family stranded on their rooftop. Power was flickering, rain was hammering against the walls, and cellular data was down to a crawling 2G edge. They had a phone with 14% battery, but opening an emergency app or downloading heavy government disaster PDFs was impossible.
All they could do was place a direct phone call.
That moment stayed with me. When panic sets in and water is rising inside your living room, you don't navigate drop-down menus or type search queries into a browser. You need to speak, and you need a voice that answers immediately with verified life-saving relief info.
That became the driving mission behind Sentinel — an autonomous, real-time Voice AI emergency dispatcher that I built over 10 days during the #VoiceForBharat challenge.
The Problem I Wanted to Solve
