NODE

NODE – Life Support Assistant

NODE is an open source software built to be a survival companion in extreme danger situations — conflict zones, bombings, shootings, building collapses, and any scenario where every second matters and internet connectivity cannot be guaranteed.

The project’s core focus is simple: put alongside any person, anywhere, an assistant that speaks, listens, and sees — and that works 100% offline, directly on the device, without relying on the cloud, external servers, or an internet connection. This is what we call Edge AI: all intelligence runs locally, on the hardware itself.

In practice, the user can speak to NODE through the phone’s microphone and receive guidance in voice and text on how to act — where to take shelter, how to help an injured person, how to identify a threat. They can also point the camera at the surrounding environment and NODE analyzes the image in real time, identifying risks, escape routes, and shelter structures. The device’s geolocation is automatically used to further contextualize the responses.

Under the hood, the assistant uses Google’s multimodal Gemma 4 model to process both text and images, OpenAI’s Whisper to transcribe the user’s speech without sending anything outside the device, and native speech synthesis to respond in audio — all packaged in a single Docker container, ready to run with just one command.

The assistant’s behavior was carefully tuned: short, direct, and calm responses — like a trained person standing right by your side, with your life as the absolute priority.

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