It was half past midnight when Soudamini Samal reached the gate of her son's apartment complex in Bengaluru. She had travelled all day, and all she wanted was to get inside and rest.
The gate was shut. She honked once, then again, then a third time before a guard stirred awake, walked over, and began asking who she was visiting and which flat. He lifted the barrier by hand and wrote her details into a logbook that, she suspected, no one would ever open again.
Soudamini had spent her career as a schoolteacher, trained to notice when a system was failing the people it was meant to protect. Standing there she saw it plainly.
If a tired grandmother could talk her way in after a few honks, so could anyone. Hundreds of families were trusting their safety to one drowsy guard and a book nobody read.
She could not let it go. That question, how does a community keep the wrong people out, make life easier for its guards, and give residents real peace of mind all at once, became Dwaar AI.