What's Up Bay Area

Every camera. Every road. One conversation.

The Bay Area has hundreds of live traffic cameras, zoo livestreams, and real-time road data — but it's all raw, scattered, and unreadable. What's Up Bay Area connects to those public feeds and lets Google Gemini tell you what's actually happening, right now, in plain English.

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Features

🚦 Live Traffic Feeds

Browse 150+ real Caltrans highway cameras across the Bay Area. Ask Gemini anything about what it sees — traffic density, hazards, weather visibility. Filter by route or county, click any camera to open an AI sandbox.

🐼 Zoo Animal Cams

Watch live zoo feeds from California and let Gemini narrate the action — whether the pandas are napping or the penguins are putting on a show.

✨ What's Ahead

Enter your origin and destination and Gemini scans every camera along your actual road path — surfacing construction, fog, stalled vehicles, or anything worth knowing before you drive. Findings are plotted on a live map and shown as a categorised list you can click into.

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• A GEMINI_API_KEY from Google AI Studio
• Optionally a GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY for the map embed

Setup

git clone https://github.com/adityajain93/google-hackathon.git
cd google-hackathon
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file in the project root:

GEMINI_API_KEY=your_key_here
GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=your_key_here   # optional

Run

python server.py

Open http://localhost:8000.

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Project Structure

inputs/          # Data ingestion (Caltrans CCTV feed, Zoo feeds)
intelligence/    # Gemini client and analyzer
agents/          # Background agents (safety, car count, scavenger)
outputs/
  ui/            # Frontend (index.html, scavenger.html, about.html)
  notifier.py    # Alert dispatcher
server.py        # HTTP server + API routes

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Built With

• Google Gemini Vision — multimodal image analysis
• Caltrans District 4 CCTV Feed — 150+ live Bay Area highway cameras
• Leaflet.js + CartoDB — interactive dark map, no API key required
• OpenStreetMap / Nominatim — free geocoding and address autocomplete
• OSRM — open-source routing engine for road path geometry
• Python http.server — lightweight backend, zero framework dependencies