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Tsuyoi

Fearless, Fierce & Free

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Tsuyoi

Fearless, Fierce & Free

The problem Tsuyoi solves

Problem: There is a global epidemic of sexual violence against women that persists still in the world today. This epidemic has alarming ripple effects: It has stymied the growth of women in society and led to gender inequality and discrimination. The situation is dire, especially in developing countries where basic emergency reporting networks do not exist (tantamount to high inefficiency). Hence, safety of women has become a progressively emphasized concern in India.
 Vision - 'As fellow human beings, we hope to lend our hands to those in need and with the aid of this technology proposed we aim to strengthen individual security at the foundational level.'
 Impact -
 This will reduce the probability of unethical physical harassment since the victim can prompt connection with law enforcing agencies.
Solution:
 Methodology - We have created a seamlessly connected SOS Panic Button which offers hands-on-help for women to be used in case of impending 'danger'.

 Implementation -
 User End: Tsuyoi is offered in 2 forms : Keychain or Fitness Band /Smart Watch (For those who already own a wearable piece of tech)
 Server Details: A Java application running in an Azure VM receives the request from the user's end and sends an email to her emergency contacts while the data is added to a Cosmos DB in real time.
 Operation at user end: As the panic button is pressed, the mobile app sends the GPS coordinates to our server.
 Police End: An application developed for the police end will read the data from the Cosmos DB in real time and notify the authorized police personnel in case of emergency.
 SWOT Analysis -
Strengths :

  1. Instant email
  2. Real-time database
  3. Choice of Keychain or smart watch/fitness band
    Weaknesses :
  4. Needs to be in the BLE Range of phone
    Opportunities: It can be easily implemented in collaboration with police department.
    Threats : Police end application isn't passworded implying that if anyone gets the application, they get the database.

Challenges we ran into

Unavailability of free SMS/Call API made us switch to Email. Azure VMs and Cosmos DB was quite complex to figure out.

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