About RiverKin
RiverKin is citizen science that keeps urban rivers healthy. There are far more rivers than there are people paid to watch them, so most urban streams go unseen for weeks. RiverKin turns ordinary people and school groups into a distributed, verified network that catches what sparse official monitoring misses.
What we do
The app shows you the river sites near you that most need a look, guides a safe five-minute bank-side field check (a few photos and simple questions), has peers verify each check, and exports the verified result as standardised FHIR health data — the same format cities, scientists and biodiversity teams already use. Our core principle is “AI asks, humans decide”: the AI reads your photos and raises questions, but never fills in an answer.
How it started
RiverKin began as an entry in the IEEE OneAquaHealth Global Hackathon 2026, built around real urban-river monitoring rather than a mock-up.
The data behind it
RiverKin is built on real OneAquaHealth (EU Horizon Europe project) ecology and One-Health-risk data — macroinvertebrate, diatom and fish indicators — across pilot cities in Europe (Coimbra, Toulouse, Ghent, Oslo, Benevento) plus a Melbourne, Australia pilot. Weather comes from Open-Meteo, biodiversity from GBIF, and river geometry from OpenStreetMap.
Who runs RiverKin
RiverKin is a project of Xphora AI Technology Pvt Ltd. We take privacy and safety seriously: observe from the bank only; photos are stripped of EXIF and faces are blurred; under-16s take part only as pseudonymous members of a teacher-led crew, never with a personal account. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.