Women's safety: App that senses fear
Using Bluetooth connectivity, the device sends a message to the list of family members and guardians of the victim on its own.
By Neetu Chandra
NEW DELHI: LAST December, when thousands of people thronged India Gate and Jantar Mantar protesting against the gang rape and murder of a 23- yearold girl, Yash Bhatia was in a different state of mind while watching all this sitting at home. Bhatia, a NIFT graduate, thought protest alone would not help; he rather decided to create something for women safety.
He created a device that automatically detects fear — at the time of any attack — to the extent of fight or flight.
Using Bluetooth connectivity, it sends a message to the list of family members and guardians of the victim on its own.
“I thought that fighting with the system and protesting against the crime and government would not serve the purpose.
We should rather look for an apt solution,” says the 37-year-old, who owns a garment shop in the Capital and is also a wedding planner. “ Then I thought of making a device, which would ensure womens safety. It took me eight months to create a fear sensor device — a modern day mind reader which is automatic in nature and a touch- free technology.” The device which Bhatia has created can be worn underneath the clothes and paired with the Bluetooth of the users handset.
The device senses the situation and automatically sends a Help Me message to the people on the list along with victims location.
He says, “I realised that a freeze mode is activated as soon as the victim faces her attacker. A pepper spray or a mobile app is actually of no use when the victim is being attacked. The solution lied in devising a technology that would be activated automatically.” “ Considering the rape and molestation cases taking place every single day, we are confident that a device of such nature will definitely help the community at large or minimise the crime,” Bhatia says. Being launched in November, the price of the device would be between Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000.
NEW DELHI: LAST December, when thousands of people thronged India Gate and Jantar Mantar protesting against the gang rape and murder of a 23- yearold girl, Yash Bhatia was in a different state of mind while watching all this sitting at home. Bhatia, a NIFT graduate, thought protest alone would not help; he rather decided to create something for women safety.
He created a device that automatically detects fear — at the time of any attack — to the extent of fight or flight.
Using Bluetooth connectivity, it sends a message to the list of family members and guardians of the victim on its own.
“I thought that fighting with the system and protesting against the crime and government would not serve the purpose.
We should rather look for an apt solution,” says the 37-year-old, who owns a garment shop in the Capital and is also a wedding planner. “ Then I thought of making a device, which would ensure womens safety. It took me eight months to create a fear sensor device — a modern day mind reader which is automatic in nature and a touch- free technology.” The device which Bhatia has created can be worn underneath the clothes and paired with the Bluetooth of the users handset.
The device senses the situation and automatically sends a Help Me message to the people on the list along with victims location.
He says, “I realised that a freeze mode is activated as soon as the victim faces her attacker. A pepper spray or a mobile app is actually of no use when the victim is being attacked. The solution lied in devising a technology that would be activated automatically.” “ Considering the rape and molestation cases taking place every single day, we are confident that a device of such nature will definitely help the community at large or minimise the crime,” Bhatia says. Being launched in November, the price of the device would be between Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000.
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