Lastmile Shield

💎 Idea

When floods, storms or armed conflict damage roads and bridges, the first hours decide whether essential supplies still reach the people and facilities that depend on them. Damage maps show affected areas, but they do not tell operators which towns are cut off, which hospitals, water or power sites are at risk, or which routes are still usable. Standard navigation ignores crisis damage, and in conflict zones satellite positioning is often jammed or spoofed.

Lastmile Shield closes this gap in three steps. It detects damaged and flooded areas from satellite data, identifies and ranks the towns and critical sites that need help, and plans safe supply routes around damaged infrastructure, flagging places that can no longer be reached by road.

🛰️ EU space technologies

- Copernicus Emergency Management Service: rapid damage and flood maps show where infrastructure is affected. This is the basis for identifying which towns and sites need help.

- Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar: sees through clouds and at night, so affected areas can be detected when optical images are unavailable (planned extension).

- Galileo: precise vehicle positioning for route planning and delivery tracking.

- Galileo OSNMA: signal authentication to verify that vehicle positions are genuine where GNSS is jammed or spoofed.

Together, Earth observation and trusted positioning turn a damage map into a decision: who needs supplies, and how to reach them safely.

🎯 Challenge

We are addressing Challenge 2: Space-enabled crisis response and civil resilience. The challenge asks for damage mapping with Earth observation, routes for goods and people with Galileo, and more resilient civilian infrastructure. Lastmile Shield covers all three in one workflow. Its signal authentication feature also contributes to Challenge 1, cybersecurity for space-based services.

🤼 Team

Parthiv: Business & Pitch

International Business student with operations experience at Amazon, including performance dashboards and process documentation. Leads customer research, the business model, team coordination, and the pitch.

Micha: Developer

Computer Science student at Deutsche Telekom. Responsible for the system architecture and core software development.

Open role: GIS & Earth Observation

We are looking for someone who works with satellite and geospatial data and can turn it into usable product information.

Open role: Frontend & UX

We are looking for someone to design and build the user interface and the visual side of our demo and pitch.

Open role: Full-Stack Developer

We are looking for a developer who can support both backend and frontend work and help us deliver a reliable demo.