Pédagua

Avoid flooding, heavy rain, lightning and other extreme weather events

Who has never faced a Pédagua? ☔

It is always a big concern when we see the weather closing in the middle of the afternoon! Always be prepared for what is happening on the streets with the Pédagua app. We are arriving at the time of frequent rains in Brazil and the concern about flooding intensifies. Receive updated alerts for the São Paulo metropolitan region about extreme weather events, such as flooding, strong wind, lightning and heavy rain. Change your route in advance to ensure your safety and speed when traveling.

Why use Pédagua:

⚠️See real time alerts and forecast for next hour

⛈️Safety: Avoid flooding, heavy rain, lightning and other extreme weather events

🚗Speed ​​on your travels: Change your route whenever you receive a risk alert

🗺️More information: Access to a map with different risk probabilities (low, medium, high)

👫Participative: Help others by reporting road problems related to weather events and avoid disasters

📊 Reliable and quality data - Pédagua lists data from social media, radars, weather stations, satellites and the physical characteristics of the region to provide the best alert information

♻️Sustainability: This application is directly related to social, environmental and economic issues, benefiting the population, cities and companies by reducing deaths, infrastructure, damage reduction, increased security, quality of life and, consequently, the creation of smart cities.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions:

📌1. Why does the app need to use geolocation?

The application uses geolocation to show where the user is in relation to areas with probability of flooding, lightning, rain and wind, it also serves to create a point on the map, after sending an occurrence.

📌2. How does the alert map of areas of probability of occurrence of hydrometeorological events work?

This map shows areas with flood probability alerts, lightning risk, rain risk and wind risk, according to a color legend: Yellow will be low probability, Orange will be medium probability, Red will be high probability.

The map shows areas marked with the colors mentioned and are clickable.

📌3. How does the map work with reported occurrences?

In the occurrence map, points of flooding and rain are shown, sent by the users of the application and each reported occurrence is available for 1 hour.

📌4.How can the user report occurrences?

To report an occurrence the user will need to log in to the application. The user can report from a flood probability alert area by clicking the "report" button within the modal, or from the report map, clicking the "Report an occurrence" button; When clicking on the button, a screen will be opened, for the user to select which type of occurrence he wants to report (Flood or rain), then select one of the three levels and click on report.

📌5. How to Create a Custom List of Favorite Places:

In the option of favorite locations, the user must also be logged in. To access, the user must open the side menu and click on the item "Favorite places";

In the Favorite Places screen, users can search for addresses they want to save as favorites, creating a list of places and creating nicknames for each one. Example: Work, Home.

📌6. How can you contribute even more to us?

Help us to improve the experience of this application, sending your suggestions to [email protected] in the subject of the email type: Suggestions for the Pédagua Application.

❗ Important: This project is funded by the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation Process no. 2016 / 10229-3. "The opinions, hypotheses and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are the responsibility of the author (s) and do not necessarily reflect the vision of FAPESP".