SafeGround is an open project seeking partners across disciplines. Whether you're a municipality in a disaster-prone region, an engineer, a researcher, or a funder — there is a role for you in building the infrastructure the world needs before 2027.
Ways to Collaborate
Is your community, municipality, or NGO in a disaster-prone area with limited existing early warning infrastructure? We are actively seeking candidate pilot sites — particularly in regions with multi-hazard exposure and limited cellular or grid reliability. A pilot partnership involves co-designing a local deployment, providing community access, and contributing to a shared learning record.
SafeGround is open source. If you have skills in embedded systems, LoRa protocol development, AI/ML, cybersecurity, ATAK plugin development, or web engineering — there is work to be done. The GitHub repository contains the full codebase, hardware specifications, and an open issue tracker. No gatekeeping. No NDAs.
View GitHubSafeGround sits at the intersection of disaster risk management, public health, community communications, and AI systems. We welcome academic and applied research partnerships covering system performance, community resilience outcomes, health impact, and policy analysis. We can provide data access, deployment access, and co-authorship opportunities.
SafeGround is currently unfunded and pre-revenue. We are seeking grant funding, philanthropic support, and impact investment for pilot deployment, hardware procurement, and protocol development. The project is explicitly aligned with UN SDG 11 (resilient cities), SDG 13 (climate action), and the EW4All 2027 mandate — making it an appropriate target for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation funding streams.
SafeGround is designed to complement, not compete with, national early warning systems. For civil defence organisations, emergency management agencies, and local government bodies: we can provide LoRa mesh coverage in the gaps your existing systems don't reach — and ATAK integration for coordinated response with your existing responder infrastructure.
SafeGround is built on the model pioneered during Hurricane Sandy response: community-anchored, NGO-deployable, and designed for the long haul. If your organisation operates in disaster-prone regions and understands the communications gap first-hand, we want to hear from you. We can provide hardware specifications, deployment guides, and ongoing technical support for self-deployed networks.
Pilot Sites
SafeGround is designed for communities that sit in the gap between national warning systems and real-world protection. The ideal pilot site combines real hazard exposure, limited existing infrastructure, and community willingness to participate.
We are not seeking showcase deployments in well-covered urban areas. We are seeking places where the system will be genuinely tested — and where a successful deployment will be meaningful evidence for the global scaling of the model.
Propose a Pilot SiteWe are in early discussions with potential pilot site candidates. No locations are confirmed. Pissouri, Cyprus has been identified as a strong candidate given its multi-hazard profile and the existing SENTINEL PoC development there.
We are actively seeking additional candidate sites across the Mediterranean, East Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and flood-prone regions of Western Europe.
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Open Source
The full SafeGround codebase — firmware, AI intelligence layer, protocol implementation, and deployment tools — is available on GitHub under the MIT licence. Fork it. Improve it. Deploy it.