International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET)

Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016

Android Application for women security

system
Kavita Sharma, Anand More
M .Tech Student ,Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science &Information Technology Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya ,
Indore, India
Department of Computer Science &Information Technology Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya ,
Indore, India

Abstract -Women’s security is a critical issue in Keyword: Women security, Smartphone, Regis-
today’s world and it’s very much needed for every tered contacts , Database ,GPS(Global Positioning
individual to be acting over such an issue. This System),GSM(Global System for Mobile
documents describes a GPS and GSM based I. .INTRODUCTION
“women security system” that provides the combi- Women are adept at mobilizing diverse groups for a
nation of GPS device as well as provide alerts and common cause. They often work across ethnic, reli-
messages with an emergency button trigger. when- gious, political, and cultural divides to promote peace.
ever some body is in trouble They might not have We are all aware of importance of women's safety ,
so much time, All that they have to do is pressing but we must realize that they should be properly pro-
the volume key. Our system provides a realizable, tected. Women’s are not as physically strong as men,
cost effective solution to problem detection. Now a in an emergency situation a helping hand would be a
days due to recently happened cases such as rape relief for them. The best way to minimize your
by drivers or colleagues, burglary etc., women se- chances of becoming a victim of violent crime (rob-
curity, especially women security has become the bery, sexual assault, rape, domestic violence) is to
foremost priority of the world. System uses the identify and call on resources to help you out of dan-
Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to gerous situations. Whether you're in immediate
find out the location of women. The information of trouble or get separated from friends during a night
women position provided by the device can be out and don't know how to get home, having these
viewed on Google maps using Internet or specia- apps on your phone can reduce your risk and bring
lized software. The IT companies are looking for- assistance when you need it. Although several were
ward to the security problem and requires a system originally developed for students to reduce the risk of
that will efficiently evaluate the problem of women sexual assault on campus, they are suitable for all
security working in night shifts, traveling alone. women In the light of recent outrage in Delhi which
We focuses on the proposed model that can be used shook the nation and woke us to the safety issues for
to deal with the problem of security issue of women our daughters, people are gearing up in different ways
using GPS and GSM based tracking system. to fight back. A host of new apps have been developed
to provide security systems to women on their phones.

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Here we introduce an app which ensures the safety of bers on personal map. This app helps you to know
women. This helps to identify and call on resources to about your family, whether they are safe or in
help the one out of dangerous situations. These reduce trouble. Life360 shows wellbeing places like hos-
risk and bring assistance when we need it and help us pital, police stations, etc near to you as well as re-
to identify the location of the one in danger. cent crimes nearby and registered sex offenders.
This app designed to provide security to women main
D) STREET SAFE: This application is developed on
purpose of this app to provide the awareness on the
worldwide Women’s day. It will call community to
time of critical situation for women.
help you in any situation. This app has 4 features for
Generally you can active this service by clicking on
crisis which would be started by just clicking on the
ACTIVE SERVICE BUTTON. When you clicking on
button. These features are as – First, it automatically
this button service get activate and know whenever
updates on your Face book account with your recent
you click on VOLUME KEY it open a new window
location. Second, SMS will be sent to chosen asso-
and send SMS to those contact which you saved at the
ciates with your locality. Third, an alarm is started
time of registration the SMS contain your message
with large volume on your mobile. Fourth, call is to be
and your current location. This app is provide deacti-
found to your chosen emergency number .
vate service also when we fill secure this app is main-
III. SYSTEM STUDY
ly required correct information to fill otherwise this
app will not work correctly A) EXISTING SYSTEM :There are many electronic
devices and systems are used to provide security for
II. RECENTLY MOBILE APPLICA-
TION FOR WOMWN DEVELOPED human:-
SAFETY IN INDIA. 1) Spy camera is the most popular method for pro-
A) FIGHT BACK: This app is developed by Mahin-
viding security which is unreliable.
dra faction. In earlier days, this app was not com-
2) The existing systems are of wired systems and most
plimentary, customer have to compensate for this
of them are alarming systems which is Conventional
app. But after Delhi gang rape this app is on hand
and cannot communicate efficiently.
at no cost. This app sends a message to your
B) PROPOSED SYSTEM :The proposed system is
friend or contacts that “user is in trouble” using
especially for the women safety and overcomes the
Email, GPS, SMS and GPRS. This app works on
disadvantages of existing systems:-
that mobile which supports Android Java Pro-
1) In this proposed system when the women are in
gramming. Using this application, you can send
danger it can be immediately inform to the con-
SMS of your location using maps also
trol rooms.
B) GUARD: This app is developed basically for
2) The proposed system is based advanced sensors,
women safety intention. This app put a phone call
Microcontroller and GSM. .
by your name, instantaneous location, and emer-
3) Transmitter part contains heart beat sensor, tem-
gency hit to your selected friends. In this app you
perature sensor and vibration sensor. They Col-
have to give your details in profile sheet e.g.
lects the signal information from women’s body
birthdates, tallness, weight, eye-color, blood
and give it to the processor, after Processing, it
group, hair-color, etc. This app is also used in I-
transmits the signal over network to receiver
Phone, IPod, BlackBerry, Windows Phone etc.
which is the control room
C) LIFE 360: Family Locator:-This is free app. In
4) The instant mica and amplifier strengthens the
emergency this app report to your friends and
voice the women screams or shout above the thre-
family. Using this app you can find relative mem-
shold limit.

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IV.SYSTEM DESIGN V . TECHNOLOGIES USED

A) System Design A. Functional Requirement

1) System Architecture: This specification is used to specify the requirements
for the initial implementation of the system and update
the system in future. The software requirement speci-
fication bridges the gap between client/user and the
system developer. This is the document that describes
the user needs accurately
B. Software Requirement
This system compromises an Android Operat-
ing System, using Java has a core language, with
Android SDK 2.2(Froyo) has its version, Imple-
Fig 1) Block Diagram of System mentation of Front end is done by XML and we
Block diagram 1) of project show two users one is have used SQLite has back end, the documenta-
victim (Women) and another one is relatives. Victim tion of this system is done using MS-Office
user long press volume key then first find location
C .Java Platform
(Longitude and Latitude) and send Message with lon-
A platform is the hardware or software environment in
gitude and latitude to relatives. Report will be gener-
which a program runs. The Java platform differs from
ate all the message details and relatives who receive
most other platforms in that it's a software-only plat-
message
form that runs on top of other, hardware-based plat-
forms. Most other platforms are described as a combi-
nation of hardware and operating system. The Java
platform has two components: The Java Virtual Ma-
chine (Java VM) and The Java Application Program-
ming Interface (Java API) Java VM is the base for the
Java platform and is ported onto various hardware-
based platforms. The Java API is a large collection of
ready-made software components that provide many
Fig 2) Working of System useful capabilities, such as graphical user interface
Above diagram 2 show working of proposed system. (GUI) widgets. The Java API is grouped into libraries
Location of victim find with help of GPS system. If (packages) of related components. The following fig-
GPS isnot on in victim mobile the GSM tower loca- ure of Java Structure depicts a Java program, such as
tion will add in to message an application or applet, that's running on the Java
2 ) Functional Description platform. As the figure shows, the Java API and Vir-
A user should be able to: tual Machine insulates the Java program from hard-

 Add emergency contact numbers. ware dependencies

 View and Change the emergency contact number

after adding.
 Add their message for emergency help. Java platfor
 Find nearest police station and contact number.

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Fig Java Structure As a platform-independent envi-

 Ability to use repeaters.
ronment, Java can be a bit slower than native code.
 Talktime is generally higher in GSM phones due
However, smart compilers, well-tuned interpreters,
to the pulse nature of transmission.
and just-in-time byte code compilers can bring Java's
 The availability of Subscriber Identity Mod-
performance close to that of native code without
ules allows users to switch networks and handsets
threatening portability
at will, aside from a subsidy lock.
D .Android SDK 2.2 (Froyo)
 GSM covers virtually all parts of the world so
Android is an operating system based on Linux with a
international roaming is not a problem.
Java programming interface The Android Software
 The much bigger number of subscribers global-
Development Kit (Android SDK) provides all neces-
ly creates a better network effect for GSM hand-
sary tools to develop Android applications. This in-
set makers, carriers and end users.
cludes a compiler, debugger and a device emulator, as E. Hardware Requirements
well as its own virtual machine to run Android pro- This System is built on Intel Pentium 4 CPU, having
grams. Android is primarily developed by Google. clock speed of 3.0GHz, with RAM size 512MB ,
Android allows background processing, provides a 40Ghz of hard disk capacity, display is of 15 inch col-
rich user interface library, supports 2-D and 3-D or monitor, and internet keyboard
graphics using the OpenGL libraries, access to the file VI . CONCLUSION
system and provides an embedded SQLite database.
This is the “Android Application for women security
Android application consists of different components
system” which is very useful application mainly for
and can re-use components of other applications. This
girl’s safety.When we feel that we are in emergency
leads to the concept of a task in Android; an applica-
situation, for example travelling alone in the Auto/Cab
tion can re-use other Android components to archive a
at night time we can use this application..so that on
task
one click we can send our location to our family
E. GPS & GSM : Advantages of GPS: members and to any police stations..So once we click
 GPS is extremely easy to navigate as it tells on button it continuously send updated locations mes-
you to the direction for each turns you take or
you have to take to reach to your destination. sages to all authorized persons and we can stop using
 GPS works in all weather so you need not to password. So this application is having both safety
worry of the climate as in other navigating de-
vices. and security which needs the engineering codeof con-
 The GPS costs you very low in comparison duct which is essential in the today,s world The sys-
other navigation systems.
tem is based advanced sensors, Microcontroller and
 The most attractive feature of this system
is its 100% coverage on the planet. GSM service
 It also helps you to search the nearby restau-
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Kavita Sharma is M.tech Student

in School Of Computer Science & Information Tech-
nology (SCS&IT) ,DAVV since July 2012.she re-
ceived her M.Sc. from School Of Computer Science &
Information Technology (SCS&IT) 2014. She research
for Android Technology, stuff of internet, and always creative for
New Idea’s.

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