Hydrocycle

A dynamic decision support system that gives municipalities the predictive time-to-action needed to prevent urban flooding

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Urban flooding causes over $82 billion in damages worldwide each year. Today, municipalities rely on static risk maps, forcing them to react only after a flood hits. Hydrocycle solves this with FloodOS, a dynamic decision support system built for municipalities, mayors, and first responders.
FloodOS creates a digital twin of a city’s water infrastructure, coupling underground pipe networks with surface topography, to replace static maps with real-time hydrological intelligence. By running live sensor and weather data against its predictive simulations, the system provides precise “Time-to-Action” metrics. Instead of just showing water levels, FloodOS generates tactical playbooks – telling city officials exactly what to close, open, or dispatch before the flood arrives, shifting them from reactive disaster management to proactive climate resilience.

Relevant Challenges

Water Infrastructure Resilience

FloodOS lets cities stress-test drainage and infrastructure designs virtually before committing capital, validating whether a proposed intervention would prevent flooding without breaking ground. By identifying where infrastructure will fail under storm conditions and prioritizing where to act, the platform helps municipalities reduce flood damage to essential services and better protect local communities.

Prediction, Risk Assessment and Monitoring

FloodOS builds a 1D/2D digital twin of a city, coupling underground pipe networks with surface topography, to produce high-resolution flood risk maps that expose drainage bottlenecks and hidden hazards. By running live sensor and weather data against its predictive simulations, the system delivers short-term, now-casting-style forecasts with precise lead times before flooding occurs, and issues real-time alerts at the level of individual streets, tunnels, and underpasses.

Disaster Management and Aid Mobilization

FloodOS translates its predictions into tactical playbooks that tell officials exactly what to close, open, or dispatch and when, to prevent and manage the city flooding.  Designed for civil protection and first responders, it improves the speed and coordination of event management by giving command centers a shared, real-time operational picture built around a single time-to-action metric.

Year Founded:
2013
Funding Stage:
PreSeed/Angel
Product Stage:
Pilot to First Paying Customer
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