Route Rakshak
A real-time civic monitoring platform that transforms citizen feedback into live ward performance analytics and safer navigation routing.
The Concept
Route Rakshak bridges the gap between chaotic citizen feedback and actionable urban insights. By converting individual complaints into streaming events, the system generates a "Live Pulse" of the city's infrastructure.
"Moving from traditional batch-processing CRUD to a real-time event-driven architecture."
Streaming Data Pipeline
Complaint Submission
Node.js backend captures geo-tagged reports and appends to event logs.
Pathway Stream Engine
Real-time computation of ward deltas and performance scoring.
Database Indexing
Synchronizing computed ranks with MongoDB Geospatial indexes.
Urban Intelligence
Live Leaderboards and safest-route navigation for citizens.
The Scoring Engine
performanceScore(ward) = ∑ (event_scores)
Every action is treated as a streaming event, processed via the Pathway Engine to provide instantaneous delta updates to ward rankings.
📍 Geo-Spatial Intelligence
Automated ward detection using MongoDB geospatial queries and QGIS-digitized maps. Integrated Cloudinary for media verification.
🛣️ Smart Safe Routing
Integrates OpenRouteService API to calculate the safest route rather than the shortest, actively avoiding high-risk damaged segments.
Architecture & Stack
Project Screenshots
Visualizing the dashboard, real-time analytics, and ward-level mapping.
Engineering Challenges
The ESM/CommonJS Hurdle
Navigating the Node.js ecosystem conflicts while integrating modern streaming libraries.
Latency Optimization
Designing a decoupled system (Events → Processing → DB Sync) to ensure sub-second ranking updates.