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Women Safety Android App

Piyush Bhanushali1, Rahul Mange2, Dama Paras3, Prof. Chitra Bhole4
1,2,3 Students, Department of Computer Engineering, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering & I.T Mumbai-400 084,
Maharashtra
4Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering & I.T

Mumbai-400 084, Maharashtra

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ABSTRACT:- The safety of women is a concern of increasing removal of these constraints. This paper introduces a mobile
urgency in India and other countries. The primary issue in the application called WoS App (Women's Safety App) that
handling of these cases by the police lies in constraints provides women with a reliable way to place an emergency
preventing them from responding quickly to calls of distress. call to the police.
These constraints include not knowing the location of the
crime, and not knowing the crime is occurring at all: at the Women suffering violation are even denied of the basic
victim's end, reaching the police assuredly and discreetly is a human rights. Gender based violence has become a national
challenge. To aid in the removal of these constraints, this as well as international agenda because of decades long
paper introduces a mobile application called WoS App struggles by civil society accompanied by women's
(Women's Safety App) that provides women with a reliable movements. Though there are unprecedented numbers of
way to place an emergency call to the police. The user can laws against domestic violence, sexual assault and other
easily and discreetly trigger the calling function by shaking forms of violence in each and every country to protect their
her phone, or by explicitly interacting with the user interface female citizens to become a victim of any such violence but
of the application via a simple press of a power button of the they are facing major challenges in implementing such laws.
device. A message containing the geographical location of the Thus making the society unjust and insecure for the women
user, as well as contact details of a pre-selected list of as in majority of cases the violator remains unpunished. We
emergency contacts, is immediately sent to the police. This all should focus on ensuring a society which is secure for all
paper describes the application, its development, and its the women around the globe so that they can experience
technical implementation. equality and justice. In a sexual act of violence the aggressors
are confident of the power they exercise. The defense
I. INTRODUCTION: strategy used by females needs to be revolutionized by
adopting modern technology and gadgets to protect them
From the very early time, women use defensive strategy for from their oppressor. This device is an answer to all the
their safety but we are still not successful in avoiding women who deserve a safe and secure world.
violence against women. It's time to adopt attacking strategy
against women violence and eve teasing with the help of this An Android Application for the Safety of Women and this app
device. can be activated this app by a single click, whenever need
arises. A single click on this app identifies the location of
As We Know, people using smartphones have increased place through GPS and sends a message comprising this
rapidly and hence, smart phone can be used efficiently for location URL to the registered contacts and also call on the
personal security or various other protection purposes. The first registered contact to help the one in dangerous
main objective of this paper is to design and implement a situations. The unique feature of this application is to send
highly reliable system for protecting women from being the message to the registered contacts continuously for
harassed. The current practices in female security broadly every five minutes until the stop button in the application
fall into different categories ranging from android is clicked. Continuous location tracking information via SMS
applications developed for mobile phones, and extend to helps to find the location of the victim quickly and can be
fashionable apparels that can be wore and carried in day to rescued safely.
day life. However, our focus is on creating a safety system
that merges the benefits of existing techniques and brings In today’s world, it is not safe for a person to travel alone at
about a solution that ensures both defense and creation of a night especially for women; it will be unsafe to travel alone
seamless pathway to initiating legal procedures, if any; have because a woman is not highly strong as men. To provide
to be taken by the victim. safety for women the good way to reduce chances in
becoming a victim of violent crime is to identify and call on
The primary issue in the handling of these cases by the resources to help you out of unsafe situations. Having safety
police lies in constraints preventing them from responding app on your phone can diminish our risk and bring
quickly to calls of distress. These constraints include not assistance when we require it. Unlike the other applications
knowing the location of the crime, and not knowing the available, which work only at the time of Emergency or
crime is occurring at all: at the victim's end, reaching the Danger, this app can be used as a safety or precaution
police assuredly and discreetly is a challenge. To aid in the measure. As it is said that precaution is better than cure. Our

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motto in developing this app is to provide a safe 1. Suraksha is a security device that can be activated in three
environment through smart phone as today most of the ways; a voice command, click of a button and when it is
people are carrying smartphones to wherever they go.A thrown with a force. Upon activation, this system sends the
message containing the geographical location of the user, as location of the device to pre- selected contacts via an inbuilt
well as contact details of a pre-selected list of emergency GSM module. But during times of distress, it might not
contacts, is immediately sent to the police. This paper always be possible for the user to carry this device in her
describes the application, its development, and its technical hand. Also, the attacker might notice the device that the
implementation. victim is holding.

The basic steps of algorithm are as follows: 2. Another such solution is a one touch alarm system
designed to look like a watch. The GSM and GPS module
Loop is setup to perform the following tasks: within the device is used to send the user's location to preset
SOS contacts when triggered by pressing a button. This
1. Press the Power button twice device may be aesthetically unappealing to the user and
might be noticed by the attacker,
2. Your Position will have turned into red
3.Another solution suggested installing an Intelligent
3. Information is sent to the processor
Security System in public places that would detect the facial
4. Location is tracked through GPS expressions of women. If the expression was suggestive of
anger or fear, a message would be sent to the control room.
5. Police can easily see your location via admin panel. But in situations where a woman is angry or upset over any
other issue, a false alarm will be triggered. Also, it is not
Help message is sent to 5 predefined contacts through GSM possible to install such surveillance cameras in all areas,
along with the location.
The objective of research work is to create a safety system in
II. LITERATURE REVIEW: the form of a portable safety device for women, that does the
following tasks:
Recently many women safety tools were developed like fight
back, guardly , on watch, family locator, sentinel, street safe, ● Victim has to press SOS given on the screen, when
circle of 6, b safe, cab 4 me, . Security for women has become she is in such condition
a major issue in most of the countries. Survey results shows
that every year around 25000 crime against women were ● Alerts family and police and gives location
booked across India. From the last ten years, the statistics coordinates of the woman being attacked when
among women abusement, sexual harassment have been there is connectivity of Internet.
steadily increasing. It has become mandatory to come up
● Captures and stores an image/video of the attacker
with a solution to protect the women from being a victim
to maintain a proof for legal actions.
and to reduce the attacks. The main objective of this paper is
to design and implement a highly reliable system for ● Send the Location of Victim via Message.
protecting women from being harassed.
IV. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY:
According to paper. The location tracking system is an
important part of this project since it makes sure that help is As We Know, in existing system Victim has to press SOS
on the way for the victim. Hence, it is required to be faster given on the screen to send her location to police and
and efficient. Location tracking intends to update the selected contacts. In existing system, the APP will alert to
location of the victim continuously to either the police or the family and police by sending location with the help of
family of the victim. The programming has to be such that internet connectivity. The Existing System will send the
the latitude and longitude of the victim has to be reported at message also of victim’s location to selected contacts. It also
multiple instances and at different times. The most captures the photo/video of attacker to take the legal action.
convenient form to inform about location is a Short Message
Service (SMS) due to obvious and wide use of cell phones by In Our System, we provide the victim to better security i.e
the masses. instead of press SOS on screen, victim has to press power
button twice to send the alert to police and selected contacts
III. EXISTING METHODOLOGY: even if she has no connectivity of internet or GPS.
The recently developed solutions for the safety of women The system will send the continuous location of the victim’s
include Smartphone Applications, Intelligent Security after every one-minute i.e. provides better location, if she is
Systems and Wearable devices. moved from one location to other.

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The main feature of our system is, we provide the admin 2.TemporaryReferral Contact
panel to police, so they have the system where police as well
as

referral contacts can see the any such case occurred or not.
When victim press power button then victim’s location will
highlight, so police nearby to the victim can easily reach to
protect the victim.

The objective of our system to form a portable safety device

for women, that does the following tasks:

● Victim has to press power button twice,

● The Location will be send without having

connection to Internet

● Alerts family and police and gives location

coordinates of the woman being attacked.

● Send the continuous Location of Victim via Message

when moved from one place to another place. 3.Schedule TempReferral duration

● Provide the panel to Police so police can easily

reach to place to save victim.

● User can use Temporary Referrals (persons which

are temporarily around user)

V. RESULTS:
All the experiments are performed in Android Studio. Victim
has to press power button twice, without having connection
to Internet. This app will give Alerts family and police and
gives location coordinates of the woman being attacked. This
system will Send the continuous Location of Victim via
Message when moved from one place to another place. This
system will Provide the panel to Police so police can easily
reach to place to save victim.

VI. IMPLEMENTATION:

1. Referral Contact

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6.Location on Map

4.Offline Tracking using lac and cid

App will activate by pressing the power button thrice. this

feature is implemented by using the broadcasting the
hardware button listener which continuously check the
hardware button press and applying little algorithm that
check the power button pressed 3 times.

Referral and Temporary Referral usage the mobile file

system to store the respective contact detail.

The implementation of location tracking features are done

using 3 types such as using GPS, using internet or offline by
using mobile network lac and CID. In GPS we are using the
mobile GPS activity to track the location and get the latitude
and longitude. In internet type we are use the internet to get
the respective location and in offline type we use the mcc,
MNC, lac and CID of current network provider in mobile.to
5.SMS with Location convert the lac and CID get from network provider will
converted to the latitude and longitude using the unwired
lab API.

Location information will sended to respective referral via

SMS.

VII. FUTURE SCOPE:

Until now, we have achieved the goal of location tracking.
However, the streaming of images should be such that any
person in the world can find the stream if it knows the IP
address of the device. Thus image streaming now needs to be
taken from intranet to internet and we mentioned as to
provide admin panel to police will be beneficial to decrease
the rate of such cases.

VIII. CONCLUSION

In this paper, we have proposed the designing and

implementation of a safety system for women in the form of
application. Going serially as per the objectives mentioned, a

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location tracking subsystem was successfully implemented

and the corresponding results were logged. The further
implementation of the system will be performed in
accordance with the goals mentioned in the future scope.
The paper also describes the GPS technology so that the
location of the victim can be traced using latitudes and
longitudes.

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