The problem She Shield solves

Looking at the recent trends and the most powerful weapon with humanity - technology, we planned to use the same to give access to women in serious or dangerous situations to address the issue in a fast and easier way to ensure their security.

Main Features

• Map - To track the current location of the user, guiding for safe routes and crime-prone areas (user would be able to mark the area safe or can view the number of users that have marked the area as safe, currently we are using crimeometer API to check whether the area is safe or not rather than providing information based on other user input)
• Voice Assistant - executes features on voice commands (this will detect if the sentence consists of few keywords such as 'SOS SMS', 'SOS Call', 'Police', 'News' to redirect the user on the desired window)
• SOS - SOS call and SOS messages to user-provided contacts (Which will be stored in shared preferences)

Additional Features

• Shake - Detects the frequency of shakes and after a certain frequency sends help message with user location to provided contacts
• Camera - To capture image (which can be shared from there itself) or and record video (which is automatically stored in gallery)
• Police stations - Locates all the nearest police stations
• Police siren - Rings the police siren
• Taxi - One-touch ola cab facility to books cabs for user
• News - To guide the users about self-defense techniques which can be extended for providing other useful health emergency guidance.

Challenges we ran into

• Guiding for safe routes and crime-prone areas was the difficult task as it requires data input we took the help of crimeometer - API but then too it isn't completely reliable and would need a proper backend to store user inputs too.
• We have to store List of Emergency contacts in local storage.
• Setting up frequency for shakes.
• Checking clarity of user input from voice assistant