🌍 Climate Shield

AI-driven real-time climate risk analysis platform for detecting flood and heatwave threats using live weather intelligence.

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🚀 Live Demo

🌐 https://climate-shield.onrender.com

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📌 Overview

Climate Shield is a lightweight climate intelligence platform that combines:

• 🌦 Real-time weather monitoring
• ⚠ Flood and heatwave risk analysis
• 🤖 AI-powered climate awareness chatbot
• 📊 Modern analytics dashboard
• 🌍 Location-based weather insights

Users can enter:

• City
• State
• Country

and instantly receive:

• Live weather data
• Flood risk score
• Heatwave risk score
• Climate alerts
• Safety guidance

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✨ Features

🌦 Real-Time Weather Monitoring

Climate Shield fetches live weather data using the OpenWeatherMap API and displays:

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Rainfall
• Wind Speed

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⚠ Climate Risk Analysis

The backend computes:

Flood Risk

Based on:

• Rainfall
• Humidity
• Wind speed

Heatwave Risk

Based on:

• Temperature
• Humidity

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🚨 Smart Alert System

The platform automatically generates alerts such as:

• ⚠ Flood Risk Detected
• ☀ Heatwave Risk Detected
• ✅ No major climate risks detected

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🤖 ClimateBot AI Assistant

Climate Shield includes an integrated AI chatbot that provides:

• Flood awareness
• Heatwave precautions
• Cyclone safety guidance
• Climate change information
• Disaster preparedness suggestions

The chatbot is lightweight and rule-based.

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🖥 Frontend

Built using:

• HTML5
• CSS3
• Vanilla JavaScript

Frontend features:

• Glassmorphism UI
• Responsive design
• Animated result cards
• Interactive chatbot widget
• Live climate analysis

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⚙ Backend

Powered by:

• Python
• Flask
• Flask-CORS

Backend responsibilities:

• Weather API communication
• Risk calculations
• Climate alert generation
• Chatbot API responses
• Frontend serving

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🧠 Tech Stack

Technology	Purpose
Python	Backend logic
Flask	API server
Flask-CORS	Cross-origin support
HTML/CSS/JS	Frontend
OpenWeatherMap API	Live weather data
Render	Deployment

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📂 Project Structure

Climate-Shield/
├── AI-chatbot/
│   └── chatbot.py
│
├── backend/
│   └── alertsystem.py
│
├── Frontend/
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── chatbot.js
│   ├── script.js
│   ├── style.css
│   │
│   └── Analysis/
│       ├── analysis.html
│       ├── analysis.css
│       └── analysis.js
│
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt

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🛠 Installation Guide

⭐ Star the Repository

1️⃣ Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/thetechguardians/Climate-Shield.git

cd Climate-Shield

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2️⃣ Create Virtual Environment

Windows

python -m venv venv

venv\Scripts\activate

Linux / macOS

python3 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

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3️⃣ Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

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4️⃣ Configure Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory:

OPENWEATHER_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Get your free API key from:

https://openweathermap.org/api

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5️⃣ Run Backend

python backend/alertsystem.py

Backend runs on:

http://127.0.0.1:5000

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6️⃣ Open Frontend

Open:

Frontend/index.html

OR serve locally:

cd Frontend

python -m http.server 8000

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🌐 API Endpoints

Weather Analysis

POST /weather

Request

{
  "city": "Guwahati",
  "state": "Assam",
  "country": "India"
}

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "weather": {
    "temperature": 29,
    "humidity": 83,
    "rainfall": 5,
    "wind_speed": 12
  },
  "risks": {
    "flood_risk": 0.62,
    "heat_risk": 0.41
  },
  "alerts": [
    "⚠ Flood Risk Detected"
  ]
}

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Chatbot API

POST /chatbot

Request

{
  "message": "What precautions should I take during floods?"
}

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "response": "You should avoid low-lying areas during floods."
}

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🚀 Deployment on Render

Build Command

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start Command

gunicorn backend.alertsystem:app

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🔐 Environment Variables

Variable	Description
OPENWEATHER_API_KEY	OpenWeatherMap API Key

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📈 Future Improvements

• 🌧 Rain prediction forecasting
• 📍 Interactive GIS climate maps
• 📲 SMS / Email emergency alerts
• 🛰 Satellite weather integration
• 🧠 Machine learning risk prediction
• 🌎 Multi-language support

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

Please read:

CONTRIBUTING.md

before submitting pull requests.

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🛡 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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👨‍💻 Authors

Developed by Team Climate Shield.

• @Vikrant0207

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📞 Support & Community

🆘 Need Help?

• 💬 Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• 🐛 Bug Reports: Open an Issue
• 📧 Discord: Join Discord Server

🌟 Stay Connected

• 📱 Instagram: @vikrant.__07
• 💼 LinkedIn: Vikrant Kumar Mehta
• 🐙 GitHub: @Vikrant0207

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🌍 Vision

Climate Shield aims to make climate risk awareness:

• Fast
• Accessible
• Intelligent
• Easy to understand

for communities, students, researchers, and emergency responders.

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⭐ Show Your Support

If this project helped you, please consider:

• ⭐ Starring this repository
• 🍴 Forking it to contribute
• 📢 Sharing it with others
• 💖 Following for more amazing projects
• 🛠 Contribute improvements

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