SheSafe is a user-friendly safety assurance platform designed specifically to support women's safety in real-time. The platform provides a suite of safety features that are accessible and intuitive, offering reassurance and rapid response options in potentially dangerous situations. Key functionalities include an emergency help button, voice-activated assistance, hand signal recognition, real-time location tracking, journey planning, and story sharing for raising awareness.
The Help Me Button feature allows users to send an immediate alert in case of an emergency. When pressed:
- The platform identifies the user’s live location and sends it to emergency contacts.
- A message is automatically sent to emergency contacts, and a call to the Women’s Helpline is initiated.
- The incident count of the user’s current location is incremented, which helps the platform track frequently unsafe areas.
The Voice Help feature enables users to activate an emergency alert through voice commands.
- The voice detection functionality identifies a pre-set help command.
- Upon detection, an alert is triggered similarly to the Help Me Button, notifying emergency contacts and updating the incident location count.
The Help Hand feature allows users to signal for help using a hand gesture.
- The gesture detection system recognizes specific hand signals indicating distress.
- Once detected, an alert is sent to emergency contacts, and the incident location count is updated to reflect potential safety issues at that location.
The Share My Story feature enables users to share their experiences to raise awareness about unsafe areas or incidents. It includes:
- Written Narration: Users can write a description of their experience.
- Audio Narration: Users can record an audio message, which is converted to text if needed.
- Users can select the location related to the story, mark it, and upload it to the platform to inform others.
The Locate Me feature offers real-time location tracking.
- This feature identifies the user’s current location and continuously monitors the surroundings.
- It checks the frequency of reported incidents in the user’s location. If an area is deemed dangerous based on incident frequency, a warning message is sent to the user to alert them to potential risks nearby.
The Plan My Journey feature helps users plan safe travel routes.
- Users can check maps of their intended path to identify potentially dangerous areas along the way.
- The platform provides guidelines and tips for using SheSafe’s safety tools effectively while traveling.
- Users contribute real-time safety insights about locations.
- Allows reporting of incidents, potential threats, and safety ratings.
- Community-driven feedback builds a collective map of safe and unsafe zones.
- Helps alert users about high-risk areas.
- Enhances overall community safety.
- Users review and rate areas based on their safety experience.
- Contributes to a cumulative safety score for each location.
- Helps others make informed decisions about routes and destinations.
- Promotes a proactive approach to personal safety.
SheSafe follows a modular system architecture with the following core components:
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Frontend: Built with React for an interactive and responsive user interface. Bootstrap is used to style components and ensure consistency across the platform.
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Backend: A Django server handles request routing, user authentication, and interaction with the database.
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Database: Uses PostgreSQL to store user data, incident reports, emergency contact information, and user-shared stories.
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Location Services: Integrated to provide real-time tracking and location identification, which is critical for alerting users of unsafe areas and sending help messages.
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Voice and Gesture Recognition: Utilizes AI/ML libraries or third-party services for real-time voice and gesture detection.
To set up SheSafe locally, follow these instructions:
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/your-username/SheSafe.git cd SheSafe - Install dependencies:
npm install
- Start the application
npm run dev
- Users can press the Help Me Button in emergencies, which sends their live location to emergency contacts.
- Users can activate Voice Help by saying a preset command, and Help Hand by performing a pre-identified hand gesture.
- The Locate Me feature allows real-time location tracking, alerting users if they are in areas with high incident frequencies.
- Users can share their experiences by choosing Share My Story and submitting either a written or audio narration of their experience.
- The Plan My Journey feature enables users to check the map for potentially dangerous areas, making it easier to plan a safe route.
- React: For building the user interface.
- Bootstrap: For styling the platform to create a consistent, user-friendly layout.
- Django: For the backend server to handle requests.
- PostgreSQL: For data storage.
- Location Services: Integrated with Google Maps API for real-time location tracking and journey planning.
- AI/ML Libraries: Used for voice and gesture detection, leveraging Google Cloud AI services.
- Cloud Storage: Firebase Storage for scalable media file storage (images, audio, video) and real-time data syncing.
- Real-Time Database: Firebase Realtime Database for instant updates on safety alerts and emergency responses.
- Cloud Functions: Firebase Cloud Functions for handling background tasks like processing emergency alerts and location updates.
- AI-based Threat Detection: Implementing AI algorithms to better analyze and predict unsafe situations.
- Multi-language Support: Expanding accessibility by offering features in multiple languages.
- Enhanced Incident Analysis: Integrating data analytics to provide insights on high-risk areas based on user reports and frequency data.