Swayam Rakshak: Smart-Safety Device for Women

In the twenty-first century, women participate in many activities on an equal footing with men. Women contribute greatly to the success of society and nation, and this is commendable. However, women’s freedom of movement is limited by sexual violence. Now, sexual harassment is one of the major barriers to women’s empowerment; hence, girls and women are placed in insecure environment. So, women should have some safety device that can be used during critical situations. The most challenging scenario includes situations in which a women may not have a mobile phone or unable to use mobile phone in dangerous situations. The proposed system overcomes these challenges by inserting a device into women's accessories to resemble a hidden device and can be activated in dangerous situations which sends the location of the user to her parents and guardians contacts thereby saving her from danger. The proposed system is designed in such a way that it works even without the user's mobile phone. Mobile phone is just used to update the current guardian’s information only. Using Android Studio, an app is developed, and using this app, parents and guardians contact information can be updated based on place such as guardians of city1, guardians of city2, etc. When the user is in city1, the app will be updated to city1 and also updates the cloud database. Hence, the cloud system will have a database of contacts of the user's parents and guardians in a particular city to save her from danger at the earliest. During danger condition user activates hidden hardware system, then distress signal is sent to the cloud which sends a signal to the parents and guardians mobile devices. In the parents and guardians mobile, the signal is in the form of an alert call with an email that contains the location of the user so that the user can be tracked easily and can be saved in time. The hardware includes ESP32 Wrover with an in-built SIM800 module which provides a data link to a remote network. Global Positioning System (GPS) is used to get the location of the user.