What can you manage together when the power is out for three days?
SamV is a free tool where the neighbours in an area map out what they have and what they can do. Who has a generator, a wood stove or water containers? Who knows first aid, electrics or radio? You see your combined capability, find out what is missing — and print a card that works even when nothing else does.
Most households manage a day on their own. After that, much depends on who lives nearest. A longer outage in winter means a cold home, no water on upper floors, card readers that stop working and phones that run flat.
Alone it turns serious fast. Fifteen households together almost always include someone with a generator, someone with a wood stove, someone who knows first aid and someone who can clear a fallen tree. The difference is rarely equipment — it is knowing who has what, before it is needed.
Ten minutes per household. No app, no password and no cost. You decide what is shared, the details never leave your own group, and the result is a sheet of paper that works when the power does not.
1 preparedness groups with 2 households use SamV today.
How it works
Four steps. It takes about ten minutes per household, and is done while everything still works.
Someone starts the group
A neighbour applies for a group covering their area. A person reads the application, usually approving it within a day.
Neighbours are invited
Everyone gets a personal link. No registration, no password to remember — the link logs you in.
Everyone fills in their own
Tick what you have at home and what you can do. You decide yourselves what may be shared with the neighbours.
You print the card
One A4 sheet with contact list, who has what, and how you reach each other without a mobile network. Put it up at home.
Why paper?
During a long power cut there is no site, no wifi and no phone. Everything done in SamV serves one purpose: that a current card sits inside a cupboard in every home, with names, addresses, phone numbers and who has the generator.
The site is the tool. The paper is the product.
What you get out of it
An honest picture
A preparedness index between 0 and 100 shows where you stand, and which critical items are missing entirely from the group.
Konkreta luckor
Not you ought to prepare but nobody in the group has water purification, and three households have no heat source without power.
En sambandsplan
How you reach each other in turn when the phone does not work, with times and responsibilities. Printed on the card.
En anslagstavla
Offer help, ask for help, check in when something has happened. Name and street address are always shown — nobody should have to guess.
Assessment
The group can get a compiled assessment with prioritised actions, produced with AI and reviewed by a person.
Material for the neighbourhood meeting
A printable situation report with resource matrix, contact list and gaps to assign responsibility for.
The more of you there are, the more you can take
A group of three households cannot manage much. A group of fifteen almost always has someone with a generator, someone with a wood stove, someone who knows first aid and someone who can clear a tree off the road. The difference between the two is not equipment — it is that somebody knocked on doors.
About privacy
You own your data
Each group is the data controller for what the neighbours provide. The details are used only for the group preparedness work.
Ingen ser allt
A household sees its own group — never any other. What you have at home is shared only with the neighbours you chose to work with.
No health data
The system never asks for diagnoses. There are fixed categories for what you may need help with — never why.
Inga annonser
The service is free and the details are never sold. Read how the data is handled.