Chapter 53
Smart Wearable Safety Device:
A Wearable Anti-Assault and Location
Tracking Device
Madhu Agarwal, Simantika Saha, Soumyadeep Pandit, Prasenjit Sarkar,
Shreya Shree Das, and Subhojit Dawn
1 Introduction
Assaulting in the streets has become a major threat to the world in this era. Every
day women are harassed, people are robbed, and children are kidnapped. Despite the
endless protests, measures taken by the police authority, and political intervention the
percentage of rapes in the nation has raised over the years. According to the annual
data released by the Government of India on January 15, 2020, a rape case is reported
every single 15 min [1]. Despite various national-level government initiatives and
campaigns like Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter),
the crime rate has increased in 2018 compared to 2017; as the data disclose that crime
against women has increased by 0.9%. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
on October 21, 2019, released its report for the year 2017, which stated that 359,849
cases of crime against women were reported in India [2]. One of the most terrifying
examples is the rape and murder case of Dr. Priyanka Reddy which took place on
November 27, 2019 in Hyderabad, India [3]. There are a large number of such anti-
rape/assault products already existing in the market, most of them are made especially
for women like the Anti-Rape Condom, Fem Defense Tampon, Hairy Stockings [4],
and so on but these are just simple contraptions, designed only for women which
may or may not be effective at the time of the assault.
M. Agarwal · S. Saha · S. Pandit · P. Sarkar
Department of Electrical Engineering, Siliguri Institute of Technology, Siliguri, West Bengal,
India
S. S. Das (B )
Department of Electrical Engineering, Mizoram University, Aizawl, India
S. Dawn
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha
Engineering College, Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh, India
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