
Ampere — Risk Instrument
Your suburb's risk, sourced.
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About
Ampere is an environmental-risk instrument for South African homes. It gives your suburb one honest number — and shows you exactly where that number comes from.
Calibrate once to your suburb and grid context, and Ampere computes a 0–100 risk score from air quality, grid stability, water and geo exposure. No alarms. No colour-coded panic. Just a measured reading and the sources behind it.
WHAT IT DOES
· Risk — a single composite score with air, grid, water and geo component cards. Each card shows its sub-score, the source it came from, the confidence in that source, and the date it was last checked. Tap Source Trace to see the full provenance.
· Compare — put your suburb next to another and see which way the numbers actually fall, component by component.
· Listening — log grid interruptions as they happen. Over weeks the pattern becomes visible: when your block sheds, how long, what it cost you.
· Habits — adopt resilience habits that honestly reduce your exposure or vulnerability. They never pretend to lower the suburb's score; they lower yours. Streaks included.
· Pantry — a 72-hour readiness tracker across water, power, food, medical and connectivity, with use-soon expiry windows.
WHY IT EXISTS
Most "risk" apps give you a red light and no reason. Ampere refuses that. Every score is traceable to a named source, a confidence level and a date — the same discipline a bank or insurer would demand of an environmental risk number. If a live source is unavailable, Ampere says so and falls back to a documented public-data catalog, clearly marked.
This is an instrument, not a dashboard. It reports what is measured. It does not predict, it does not catastrophise, and it does not sell your data because there is no server to sell it from.
PRIVACY POSTURE
· Everything is computed on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no sign-in.
· No servers, no third-party SDKs, no analytics, no advertising.
· Location is optional — used once to match your nearest suburb, then discarded. The coordinate is never stored or transmitted.
· Notification permission is requested only if you set a threshold alert.
Built in South Africa, for South African suburbs and grids — Eskom direct, municipal, prepaid, estate and solar-hybrid contexts, from Sandton to Soweto to the Highveld.
Ampere by Quantyx.
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What's New in Ampere
1.2.3
June 11, 2026
Loadshedding and air quality are now live the moment you open Ampere, with no key setup required. · Pull down to refresh any screen, and Ampere refreshes on its own when you reopen it. · Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets now show your current loadshedding stage, with a quiet alert when the stage climbs. · Settings puts the live data switch front and centre, and you can still bring your own EskomSePush or air quality key. · On-device acoustic listening surfaces real appliance detections with live confidence.
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