Women Safety app-women@pace

As a result of increase in the number of women falling prey to assault and harassment, the security factor of women is facing a hike in terms of concern of her safety; whether it be her being lonely on a street with few strangers or getting late to return home late night. Many more of such situations put her in a state which makes her feel if there could be a way to stay in touch of her close one’s whenever she feels unsafe or at the time she senses the mark of something threatening they may occur. One of the way to reduce the chances of being a victim to such violent crimes is to identify and call on resources to help you out of the threatening situations. According to statistics, the use of smartphone devices has been growing exponentially since the last decade. Our research is an attempt to converge technology, hardware and software and develop an application “Women safety app-Women@pace� that would bring these resources to your fingertips. The proposed project can pass exact location of the woman to a pre-decided list of contacts and a nearby police station with the help of GPS; after every decided unit of time. The app would open as soon as you unlock your phone and would have a simple interface to avoid complexity. There would be a provision to take and send snapshots of the situation automatically to a predefined email-id. It will also poses a messaging facility.