Hacker
Thiru Mughil Senthur R
@thirumughil
ClimateGuard AI — Chennai Heat Hazard Surveillance
Environmental HacksOct 2026
# ClimateGuard AI: Building an AWS-Powered Urban Heat Risk Monitoring Platform **Suggested outline** 1. **The problem:** How extreme urban heat affects cities and vulnerable communities. 2. **Our solution:** Introducing ClimateGuard AI and its heat-hazard dashboard. 3. **The technology:** Explain the Python geospatial analysis tools and AWS services used, including Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon API Gateway. 4. **How it works:** Describe the flow from weather and geographic data to heat-risk classification, visualization, and decision support. 5. **Challenges and lessons learned:** Share real implementation challenges and how you addressed them. 6. **Future improvements:** Discuss forecast validation, cooling-centre accessibility, improved risk calibration, and cloud deployment. 7. **Conclusion:** Explain how the project could help urban planners and emergency-response teams make better-informed decisions.