City Sense develops intelligent IoT, AI, and data-driven solutions that empower cities with real-time insights, resilient infrastructure, and smarter decision-making across urban ecosystems.
City Sense is a technology startup incubated at CITTIC focused on building intelligent solutions for modern cities. Leveraging IoT, AI, cloud platforms, and real-time data systems, we develop technologies that improve urban infrastructure, environmental monitoring, public safety, and operational efficiency.
Working closely with researchers, industry experts, and government stakeholders, we bridge the gap between academic innovation and practical deployment—creating scalable, reliable, and impact-driven solutions for the cities of tomorrow.
In densely populated urban areas, a drainage blockage can cause significant waterlogging within 20–30 minutes. The failure is invisible — until it isn't.
The worst flood in nearly a century. Kochi was one of the hardest-hit cities — with urban drainage failure cited as a primary amplifier.
Of urban flood events in Indian cities are attributed to drainage system failures, not river overflow — yet monitoring remains river-centric.
Municipal drainage monitoring relies on manual inspection and citizen complaints. By the time a blockage is reported, flooding has already begun.
A distributed IoT framework developed in collaboration with the original patent holders to detect flood risk inside urban drainage corridors — before water ever reaches the street.
Custom IP67/IP68 waterproof, corrosion-resistant enclosures engineered for harsh underground drainage conduits and continuous submerged operation.
Non-invasive mechanical integration optimized for instant installation within U-drain, V-drain, or closed box-drain channel cross-sections.
Ultra-low power configurations delivering 1–2 year maintenance-free battery lifecycle with future integrated GPS node-positioning updates.
Nodes poll sensors every 5 seconds, computing a rolling 1-minute mathematical average (12 data slices) to neutralize splash noise before transmitting.
Triggers a dual-tiered alert pipeline: direct telemetry dashboards inform municipal engineers, while automated localized warnings alert residents and motorists of imminent flood risk.
Nodes query real-time weather APIs. If rainfall is zero but water height scales to maximum, the system confirms a structural blockage instead of a weather-related flood alert.
A distributed IoT framework engineered to monitor the city's drainage network from the inside out. Designed for localized node mesh integration, DMFS computes infrastructure flow metrics and level readings in real time to capture blockages before surface waterlogging can materialize.
Nodes 1 and 3 send local data to Node 2 (Master)
How City Sense acquires, validates, and stores critical urban drainage metrics.
Edge nodes poll physical sensors every 5 seconds, computing a rolling 1-minute mathematical average (12 data slices) to neutralize noise from structural splashing or wave action.
Nodes query real-time external Weather APIs. If rainfall is zero but water level rises to critical, the system confirms a structural blockage alert instead of a rainfall-induced flood alert.
Every operational minute of our active DMFS deployment acts as cold storage ingestion for Firestore, mapping out the multi-variant datasets required to fuel our upcoming environmental AI.
Built with rigour. Recognised by institutions. Validated by government infrastructure frameworks.
Patent No. 565002 (App No. 202441039460) — IoT-Based Drainage Monitoring and Flood Alert System. City Sense actively develops and refines this architecture via a mutual innovation agreement with the original patent holders.
Formally backed and sanctioned under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) framework, Ministry of Education, Government of India, for specialized edge prototype operationalization and field deployment.
Incubated Startup Infrastructure
Formally operating out of the
Centre for Innovation, Technology Transfer and Industrial Collaboration at the Cochin University of Science
and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi.
Strategic rollout of urban infrastructure modules.
Co-develop next-generation sensing hardware, low-latency firmware, or cloud infrastructure side-by-side with our engineers.
Collaborate on environmental data analytics, micro-climate research, or urban hydraulic model validation.
Deploy DMFS inside your local municipal drains. We work with public authorities to map, install, and manage nodes.
Finance a patented, government-backed urban resilience platform at the early scaling phase with clear public milestones.
City Sense was officially incorporated as a Registered Partnership Firm on 20 December 2025, founded by four B.Tech Information Technology students from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT).
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