Decentralert
Faster Emergency Response Through Shared Context
Decentralert is a mobile emergency response concept designed to reduce the time between someone asking for help and the right service reaching them. With one clear SOS action, the app starts a visible 30 second confirmation that can be cancelled to prevent accidental alerts or sent immediately when every second counts.
Once confirmed, Decentralert packages the caller’s live location, selected emergency type, and only the medical information they have consented to share, such as allergies, medication, or important health conditions. The system ranks the nearest and next nearest available responders by estimated arrival time. If the emergency type is unknown, it can send the incident to police, fire, medical, and rescue services so the fastest suitable help can respond first.
A live dispatch console gives operators one shared incident view: responder proximity, service acknowledgements, essential medical context, and the current response status. The prototype demonstrates the complete experience across an Android app, a Rust/PostgreSQL backend, and a browser based operator dashboard.
Decentralert is currently a simulation and is not connected to 112 or any live emergency service network. The goal is to demonstrate how privacy aware data sharing and decentralized routing could make emergency coordination faster, clearer, and more resilient.
