Wo-safe
Wosafe - the app for future!
The problem Wo-safe solves
In this era of technological advancements, we often fail to secure the safety of women in our society. These are some of the reports on Women Safety and neither of them say that women feel safe in our society.
This is a worldwide problem, some way or the other women are being harassed. Since we could not change society, so we thought maybe we could give our society a chance to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place. We plan to build an application that would have a Distress button and by pressing this single button the victim could notify the people she had added from her contacts (near ones) by SMS, and also all the people who subscribe to our application with her location using a flash notification.
Challenges we ran into
The safety of women is a global concern. We are running in the 21st century, an advanced era, however it is very shameful to say about the doubtful safety of woman in India. Nowadays, self-defense techniques are not just enough for self-protection. A reliable, smart measure is required to ensure safety or protection from danger on the fly.
When we were ideating the project, we wanted this app to be as secure as possible. Since we are taking the realtime location of everybody, we had to be extra careful. We solved this challenge by keeping everyone's location private to their phones only. Whenever someone presses the "distress" button, only their location is publicly shared. Since everyone else is subscribed to this public repository of distressed people's locations, our app calculates the distance between this client and the one in the problem.
Technologies used