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🏯 Monastery360+ – Next-Gen Heritage Platform

Immersive AI-powered platform to digitize, preserve, and promote monasteries of Sikkim

Smart India Hackathon 2025 – Problem Statement ID: SIH25061
Theme: Travel & Tourism
Team: 7SENSITIVE

✨ Features

  • 🌐 Immersive 360°/3D Tours – AI stitching for seamless monastery exploration
  • 🕶️ AR Overlays – Contextual historical/cultural knowledge in real time
  • 🗣️ Multilingual Audio Guides – Powered by SamasyaNLP v1.7 & IIT Modi Script Model
  • 📜 Digital Restoration – Automated manuscripts & mural restoration with TensorFlow + HuggingFace + CLIP
  • 🤖 Personalized Experiences – GPT-4 Turbo storytelling & curation (2025)
  • 🧘 Community Portal – AI-backed authenticity for monks, locals, researchers
  • 📅 Real-Time Event Calendar – Eco-routing, bookings with Stripe v12

🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer Technologies
Frontend React v18, Next.js v14, Flutter v3.22
Mobile/VR/AR Three.js r157, ARCore v1.39, ARKit v6
AI/NLP TensorFlow v2.14, HuggingFace v4.39, GPT-4 Turbo, SamasyaNLP v1.7, CLIP v1.0
Backend Node.js v20, Django v4.2, Python v3.11, GraphQL v16
Maps Mapbox GL JS v3.0, Google Maps API
Database MongoDB v6.0, Firebase, PostgreSQL v15.5
Deployment Docker v26.1, Kubernetes v1.30, AWS EC2 (Ubuntu 22.04), CloudFront CDN
Security OpenSSL v3.2, OAuth2
Payments Stripe v12, Razorpay v5

🔄 Process Flow

  1. 📸 Data Acquisition → 3D scans, manuscripts
  2. 🧠 AI Enrichment → OCR, NLP, translation, restoration
  3. 🕶️ AR/VR Integration → Web, mobile, headset experiences
  4. 🌍 Community Content → Monks, locals, researchers
  5. 👤 User Experience → Personalized immersive journeys

📊 Feasibility & Viability

Challenge Solution
📶 Low Connectivity Offline sync + device caching
🧾 Content Authenticity AI + human moderation
🗣️ Language Diversity Deep Indian NLP + multilingual UI
🔐 Privacy/Security RBAC + full encryption

✔️ Modular, scalable architecture
✔️ Proven open-source stacks
✔️ Offline-first support for remote regions

🌍 Impact & Benefits

Target Beneficiaries

  • 🎒 Tourists → Immersive multilingual monastery tours
  • 👨‍🌾 Locals → New income, skill development
  • 📚 Researchers → Access to rare digitized archives
  • 🏯 Monasteries → Sustainable digital preservation

Key Benefits

  • 🏛️ Social – Heritage conservation, multilingual education
  • 💰 Economic – Boost in tourism, local jobs, revenue growth
  • 🌱 Environmental – Reduced wear on fragile sites, eco-friendly tourism

📚 Research & References

  • UNESCO – Digital Heritage Publications
  • IIT Jodhpur – Indian Language AI
  • IIT Roorkee – Modi Script Model
  • Matterport 3D VR, Theasys VR Editor
  • HuggingFace, TensorFlow, OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo
  • ScienceDirect, IEEE, Journal of Tourism Futures

🚀 Roadmap

  • Phase 1: Prototype – Scan one monastery, basic VR
  • Phase 2: AI Integration – Multilingual guides, restoration
  • Phase 3: Expansion – All monasteries + tourism portal

👥 Authors

Built with ❤️ by:

  • Mayank Kumar Sharma
  • Shreyan Mitra

🏆 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Smart India Hackathon 2025 for the opportunity to innovate for cultural preservation and tourism.