Amazon Nova Hackathon 2026 | Agentic AI + Multimodal Understanding + UI Automation
CityPulse is an AI-powered hyperlocal intelligence platform that monitors your neighborhood's digital footprint and provides actionable insights that actually affect your daily life. Built entirely with Amazon Nova AI models, it combines agentic AI, multimodal understanding, and UI automation to deliver proactive community intelligence.
Unlike traditional chatbots or document processors, CityPulse is a proactive intelligence gathering system that:
- 🤖 Monitors your neighborhood 24/7 using autonomous AI agents
- 🧠 Analyzes multi-modal data (text, images, permits, social media)
- 📊 Synthesizes insights from disparate sources
- 🔔 Alerts you to relevant changes in real-time
- 🎙️ Briefs you daily via voice with personalized updates
✅ Truly Novel Use Case - Not another chatbot or RAG system
✅ Multi-Agent Orchestration - 12 specialized AI agents working in parallel
✅ All Nova Capabilities - Leverages every Amazon Nova model
✅ Real-World Impact - Actionable intelligence for daily life
✅ Proactive, Not Reactive - Agents work autonomously, not on-demand
✅ Production Ready - Live deployment with real data from Mumbai
Phase 1: Core Data Collection (6 Agents)
├── 📰 News Synthesis Agent (Nova 2 Lite)
│ └── Aggregates local news from RSS feeds, identifies trends
│
├── 🤖 Nova Act UI Automation (Nova Act)
│ └── Automated permit checking via browser automation
│
├── 🏢 Permit Monitor Agent (Selenium + Nova)
│ └── Real-time scraping of city building permits
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├── 🏛️ BMC Ward Monitor (Nova Act)
│ └── Ward-level permit tracking across Mumbai
│
├── 👥 Social Listening Agent (Nova 2 Lite)
│ └── Reddit sentiment analysis + community discussions
│
└── 📸 Visual Intelligence Agent (Nova 2 Omni)
└── Multimodal analysis of construction sites and events
Phase 2: User Features (6 Agents)
├── ☀️ Morning Voice Briefing (Nova 2 Lite + Polly)
│ └── Personalized daily audio briefing
│
├── 🔔 Smart Alerts System (Nova 2 Lite)
│ └── Real-time safety and community notifications
│
├── 🚨 Safety Intelligence (Nova 2 Lite)
│ └── Proactive safety alerts and hazard detection
│
├── 💰 Investment Insights (Nova 2 Lite)
│ └── Neighborhood-level investment analysis
│
├── 💬 Community Pulse Enhanced (Nova 2 Lite)
│ └── Advanced sentiment analysis and trend detection
│
└── 🎙️ Voice Q&A System (Nova 2 Lite + Polly + RAG)
└── Real-time voice assistant with semantic search
AI & ML:
- 🧠 Amazon Nova 2 Lite - Real-time reasoning and text generation
- 🎨 Amazon Nova 2 Omni - Multimodal understanding (text + images)
- 🤖 Amazon Nova Act - UI automation and web scraping
- 🎙️ Amazon Polly Neural TTS - Natural voice synthesis
- 🔍 Amazon Titan Embeddings - Vector search for RAG
- 📊 FAISS - Fast similarity search
Backend:
- 🐍 Python 3.11
- 🌐 Flask 3.0 (REST API)
- 🔄 Gunicorn (Production server)
- 📦 Boto3 (AWS SDK)
Frontend:
- 💻 Vanilla JavaScript (No framework overhead)
- 🎨 Modern CSS with gradients and animations
- 📱 Fully responsive design
- 🗺️ Leaflet.js (Interactive maps)
- 🎮 Three.js (3D permit visualization)
Infrastructure:
- ☁️ AWS Bedrock (Nova models)
- 🚀 Heroku (Backend deployment)
- ⚡ Vercel (Frontend deployment)
- Track your engagement across all features
- View recent activity history
- Personalized stats and insights
- Tech: LocalStorage API, Real-time updates
- Interactive 3D view of construction permits
- Click buildings to see permit details
- Filter by type, status, and location
- Tech: Three.js, WebGL, Nova Act for data collection
- Real-time safety notifications
- New business openings nearby
- Road closures and construction updates
- Community events and meetings
- Tech: Nova 2 Lite for alert generation, Leaflet maps
- Trending topics in your neighborhood
- Sentiment analysis of community discussions
- Key concerns and celebrations
- Interactive topic exploration
- Tech: Nova 2 Lite for NLP, Social media aggregation
- Trending neighborhoods for investment
- Development activity heatmaps
- Property value indicators
- Commercial vs residential trends
- Tech: Nova 2 Lite for analysis, Data visualization
- Personalized daily audio briefing
- News, permits, and community updates
- Listen on-the-go
- Tech: Nova 2 Lite + Amazon Polly Neural TTS
- Ask questions in natural language
- Voice input with browser speech recognition
- Audio responses with Polly TTS
- RAG-powered answers from local data
- Tech: Nova 2 Lite, Polly, FAISS, Titan Embeddings
Location: Backend agents + Voice AI
Purpose: Text generation, reasoning, analysis
agents/features/community_pulse_nova.py- Community sentiment analysisagents/features/safety_intelligence_nova.py- Safety alert generationagents/features/investment_insights_nova.py- Investment analysisagents/voice_qa_realtime.py- Voice Q&A responsesagents/voice_briefing_nova.py- Morning briefing generation
Location: Image analysis agents
Purpose: Analyze photos from permits, social media, news
agents/image_analysis_nova.py- Construction site analysisagents/features/community_pulse_nova.py- Social media image analysis- Visual intelligence for safety concerns
Location: Web scraping agents
Purpose: Automated data collection from websites
agents/permit-monitor/permit_monitor_real.py- BMC permit scrapingagents/social-listening/social_listener_nova.py- Social media monitoringagents/nova_act_permit_checker.py- Automated permit checking
Location: Voice features
Purpose: Natural voice synthesis
backend/api_v2.py-/api/voice/askendpointagents/voice_briefing_nova.py- Morning briefing audioagents/speech_to_speech_simple.py- Voice responses
Location: RAG system
Purpose: Vector embeddings for semantic search
agents/rag_qa_system.py- Document embeddingsagents/rag_api.py- Fast RAG API
Location: RAG system
Purpose: Fast vector similarity search
agents/rag_qa_system.py- Semantic search over local data
- Python 3.11+
- AWS Account with Bedrock access
- AWS credentials configured
- Node.js (optional, for development)
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Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Hritik123789/amazon_nova_2.git cd amazon_nova_2 -
Set up backend
cd backend pip install -r requirements.txt cp .env.example .env # Edit .env with your AWS credentials
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Run agents to generate data
cd agents python run_all_agents.py --parallel -
Start backend server
cd backend python api_v2.py -
Open frontend
cd frontend/app # Open index.html in browser # Or use: python -m http.server 8000
Backend Environment Variables (.env):
FLASK_ENV=production
SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your-aws-key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your-aws-secret
AWS_REGION=us-east-1
CORS_ORIGINS=*Frontend Configuration (frontend/app/js/config.js):
BASE_URL: 'http://localhost:5000' // Change for productioncitypulse/
├── agents/ # AI Agents
│ ├── features/ # Feature-specific agents
│ │ ├── community_pulse_nova.py
│ │ ├── safety_intelligence_nova.py
│ │ └── investment_insights_nova.py
│ ├── permit-monitor/ # Permit scraping
│ ├── social-listening/ # Social media monitoring
│ ├── rag_qa_system.py # RAG Q&A system
│ ├── voice_qa_realtime.py # Voice AI
│ └── run_all_agents.py # Orchestrator
│
├── backend/ # Flask API
│ ├── api_v2.py # Main API
│ ├── config.py # Configuration
│ └── requirements.txt # Dependencies
│
├── frontend/app/ # Web Application
│ ├── index.html # Home page
│ ├── dashboard.html # User dashboard
│ ├── permits.html # 3D permits view
│ ├── alerts.html # Smart alerts
│ ├── community.html # Community pulse
│ ├── briefing.html # Morning briefing
│ ├── voice.html # Voice AI
│ ├── css/main.css # Styles
│ └── js/ # JavaScript
│ ├── config.js # API config
│ ├── api.js # API client
│ ├── permits.js # 3D visualization
│ ├── alerts.js # Alerts + maps
│ ├── community.js # Community features
│ ├── voice.js # Voice AI
│ └── dashboard.js # Dashboard
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└── docs/ # Documentation
- 12 specialized agents working in parallel (6 data collection + 6 user features)
- Autonomous operation - agents run on schedule, not on-demand
- Data synthesis - combining insights from multiple sources
- Parallel execution - optimized for speed with ThreadPoolExecutor
- Cost optimization - 88% cost reduction vs GPT-4 using Nova models
- Text analysis - News, social media, permits
- Image analysis - Construction sites, events, safety
- Voice interaction - Natural language Q&A
- Spatial data - Maps, locations, proximity
- Not reactive - Agents work 24/7, not on-demand
- Predictive - Identifies trends before they're obvious
- Personalized - Tailored to your neighborhood
- Actionable - Insights you can act on
- Safety - Early warning of hazards
- Investment - Identify opportunities
- Community - Stay connected
- Convenience - Know what's happening
| Endpoint | Method | Description |
|---|---|---|
/health |
GET | Health check |
/api/alerts |
GET | All alerts |
/api/community |
GET | Community pulse data |
/api/safety |
GET | Safety alerts |
/api/investment |
GET | Investment insights |
/api/permits |
GET | Building permits |
/api/briefing |
GET | Morning briefing |
/api/voice/ask |
POST | Voice Q&A |
/api/audio/<file> |
GET | Audio files |
Home Page
3D Permits Visualization
Smart Alerts with Map
Community Pulse
Voice AI Assistant
Agentic AI + Multimodal Understanding + UI Automation
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Comprehensive Nova Usage
- ✅ Nova 2 Lite for reasoning and text generation
- ✅ Nova 2 Omni for multimodal image analysis
- ✅ Nova Act for UI automation and web scraping
- ✅ Amazon Polly Neural TTS for voice synthesis
- ✅ Amazon Titan Embeddings for semantic search
- ✅ FAISS for fast vector similarity search
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Scale: 12 Autonomous AI Agents
- 6 data collection agents running 24/7
- 6 user-facing feature agents
- Parallel execution with ThreadPoolExecutor
- Orchestrated via master controller
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Novel Use Case
- Not a chatbot or document processor
- Proactive intelligence gathering system
- Monitors neighborhood digital footprint
- Synthesizes insights from disparate sources
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Real-World Application
- Live deployment: https://amazon-nova-2-git-main-hritik123789s-projects.vercel.app/
- Real data from Mumbai, India
- Solves actual civic engagement problems
- Scalable to any city worldwide
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Technical Excellence
- Production-ready code with error handling
- Cost tracking: $0.09 per full agent run
- 92% accuracy rate on permit detection
- <2 second response time for voice AI
- Comprehensive documentation
# Run all agents in parallel
python agents/run_all_agents.py --parallel
# Run specific agent
python agents/features/community_pulse_nova.py
# Build RAG cache
python agents/rag_api.py "test question"# Test backend endpoints
cd backend
python test_api.py
# Test specific endpoint
curl http://localhost:5000/api/alertsSee DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE_FINAL.md for detailed instructions.
Quick Deploy:
# Backend (Heroku)
heroku create citypulse-backend
git subtree push --prefix backend heroku main
# Frontend (Vercel)
vercel --prodMIT License - see LICENSE file for details
Built with ❤️ for the Amazon Nova Hackathon 2026
- Amazon Web Services for Amazon Nova AI models
- Amazon Bedrock team for the amazing platform
- Open source community for tools and libraries
For questions or feedback:
- GitHub Issues: Create an issue
- Email: [bhatthritik17@gmail.com]
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