Our Motives

ZilinHydroSense began as something deeply personal.

In summer of 2024, a devastating flood swept through my hometown, Changsha. My family's car was destroyed. My grandmother, living alone, was trapped in her house for over a week. I watched helplessly from the news as helping polices are trying to escort people one by one from the danger. What struck me most wasn't just the rising water, but the complete absence of warning. Data existed, yes, hidden deep within official websites, yet there were no accessible alerts, no public system to tell people what was coming. When the warning got to people, that is not until after the city was flooded—it was too late. That profound sense of powerlessness stayed with me. I created ZilinHydroSense to change this reality: to transform hidden information into real-time, open, and predictive flood alerts. So the next time the waters rise, people can act before it's too late. And to break the information gap.