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Environmental Surveillance Technology Platform

SYSTEMS RESILIENCE

Oct 21

Written by ARTPARK

ARTPARK https://artpark.in/

Heatwaves + Health Risk Prediction

Smarter Surveillance. Healthier Lives.

Dharini is a reusable, open-source One Health surveillance platform that integrates clinical, environmental, and genomic surveillance of pathogens, with a primary focus on animal health. It incorporates genomic sequence analysis and decision-support modules to enable pathogen characterisation, epidemiological assessment, early detection, and evidence-based outbreak management.

Priority Threats

Avian influenza

Avian influenza

Primary + secondary data

Field and lab evidence, combined with environmental, ecological and weather data.

Foot-and-mouth disease

Decision support systems

GeoLens shows where wild birds, farms and herds meet — and where risk is rising.

Genomic intelligence

SNP visualisation and genomic prediction reveal which variant is circulating, and where.

Why it matters

Transform surveillance data into evidence-based early signals and insights for disease detection and response.

India is home to one of the world's largest livestock populations, with 535.78 million animals according to the 20th Livestock Census (2019). Diseases that move between animals, birds, people and the environment demand surveillance that is active, timely and traceable.

Yet evidence is often spread across paper registers, lab spreadsheets and disconnected maps. Dharini brings it together, in the spirit of a One Health approach.

Fragmented records

Field notes, sample registers and lab results live in different places, making it hard to follow a single sample end to end.
Decisions without foresight

Field findings alone can't show which nearby farms, wetlands or herds are likely to be at risk next.
Missing context

A positive result means more when you can see where it occurred, what surrounds it and how the pathogen varies.

How Dharini works

Evidence + context = better decisions

Field data shows what is happening. Context shows why. Dharini connects both.

Primary data

Observe

Sites
Samples
Genomes

Secondary data

Contextualise

Wild birds
Poultry farms
Wetlands
Weather

Evidence generation

Interpret

Risk maps
Hotspots
Variants

Decisions

Act

Where to sample
Whom to alert
Where to vaccinate

01 · GeoLens: geospatial intelligence

See where risks are emerging, and what is driving them

GeoLens layers disease, ecological and farm data on one map, showing where risk is emerging and what is driving it.

Map layers

Layer the landscape

All risk factors on one map.

Sites
Bird density
Wetlands
Poultry farms
Cattle markets

Proximity analysis

Measure exposure

What lies within a set radius of any site.

Buffer radius
Nearest wetland
Farms in range

Site comparison

Compare sites

Two sites, side by side.

Birds
Habitat
Farms
Weather

02 · Genomic surveillance & prediction

Go beyond detection to understand the pathogen genome

A positive test confirms that a pathogen is present. Genomic analysis reveals how it differs from a reference, which mutations it carries, and how those variants are distributed across samples, locations and time. Dharini brings these genomic insights together in an accessible, interactive view.

Mutation visualisation

Explore genomic variants

Analyse FASTA and FASTQ data through an end-to-end workflow for variant identification, annotation and visualisation, with no command-line expertise required.
Genomic intelligence

Interpret mutations that matter

Move beyond variant lists by examining affected genes, predicted functional effects, mutation impact and protein-level changes to prioritise variants for further investigation.
Linked to place and time

Connect genomic change with epidemiological context

Link variants with sample, location and collection-date metadata to compare patterns across populations and explore how mutations are distributed geographically and over time.

Built for One Health surveillance

For One Health pathogen surveillance initiatives

Dharini supports surveillance initiatives that track priority pathogens across animals, people and the environment.

Disease-agnostic by design

Configurable for any priority pathogen, so new diseases, sites and programmes can be added without rebuilding.
Clinical & environmental surveillance

Animal samples and environmental samples from water, soil and air, brought together in one evidence base.
Focused on One Health pathogens

Built for threats that move between animals, people and the environment, such as avian influenza.

One platform.Multiple layers of evidence.A clearer view of disease signals.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Developed by ARTPARK–IISc, in collaboration with NCBS–TIFR

The Dharini platform is developed by ARTPARK-IISc (I-Hub for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Innovation Foundation), Bengaluru, under the ‘Environmental Surveillance as a Key Public Health Strategy in India’ project consortium, led by the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). This was enabled through funding provided by the Gates Foundation.

We acknowledge the consortium members- BAIF Development Research Foundation (BAIF), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Gujarat Biotechnology Research Council (GBRC), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (CSIR-NCL), National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD), National Institute on Foot & Mouth Disease (ICAR-NIFMD), National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics (ICAR-NIVEDI), National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Pune Knowledge Cluster Foundation (PKCF), and Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS)- for domain expertise, operational insights, and feedback towards the platform’s requirements and functional scoping.

Want to explore Dharini further?

Visit the Dharini Website

ARTPARK

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Registered company name “I-Hub for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Innovation Foundation”

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