A Socially Relevant Project Report on

WOMEN SAFETY DEVICE

(SAFETY USING GPS, GSM, SHOCK, SIREN AND LED)

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the award of the degree of

Bachelor of Technology
in

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

by

GUNTHA SRAVYA LIKITHA

(19AT1A04E9)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

G. PULLAIAH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
(Accredited by NAAC of UGC with “A” Grade, Accredited by NBA (ECE, CSE & EEE)
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, Recognized by UGC under 2 (f) & 12 (B) &
Permanently Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur)
Pasupula (v), Nandikotkur Road, Kurnool – 518 452, Andhra Pradesh

2020-2021

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 G.PULLAIAH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
(Accredited by NAAC of UGC with “A” Grade, Accredited by NBA (ECE, CSE & EEE)
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, Recognized by UGC under 2 (f) & 12 (B) &
Permanently Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur)
Pasupula (v), Nandikotkur Road, Kurnool – 518 452, Andhra Pradesh

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the socially relevant project report entitled “WOMEN SAFETY
DEVICE (SAFETY USING GPS, GSM, SHOCK, SIREN, AND LED)” being
submitted by GUNTHA SRAVYA LIKITHA (19AT1A04E9) in partial fulfillment of the
requirement for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and
Communication Engineering to G.Pullaiah College of Engineering and Technology,
Kurnool.

Mentor Name M.Tech., Dr.T.TIRUPAL M.Tech., Ph.D

Project Supervisor Head of the Department

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 CONTENTS
PAGE NO.

Abstract 4
1. INTRODUCTION 5

2. WORKING
2.1 Women Safety 6
3. IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTED IN WOMEN
SAFETY DEVICE 7
3.1 Sensing Units 7
3.2 Controller Unit 7
3.3 Location Tracking Unit 8
3.4 Cellular Messaging Unit 9
3.5 Display Unit 9
3.6 Alerting Unit 10
3.7 Self Defence Unit 10
3.8 Primary School Children Safety 11
3.9 Vehicle Safety System Module 11
3.10 Mobile and other valuables Safety System Module 11
4. BLOCK DIAGRAM AND FLOW CHART OF OPERATION OF THE
WOMEN SAFETY DEVICE 12
5. CONCLUSION 13
6. BIBILOGRAPHY 14

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 ABSTRACT

India which sees itself as a promising super power and an economic hub, is still trapped in
the clutches of various patriarchal evils like molestations, dowry, crime against women,
worst among all is rape. In today’s world, women safety has become a major issue as they
can’t step out of their house at any given time due to fear of physical/sexual abuse and
violence.So, in an attempt to curb this menace, the atrocities against the women can be
now brought to an end with the help of a Women Safety Device. This safety device
consists of a microcontroller, a temperature sensor, a heartbeat sensor and an emergency
pushbutton switch. On sensing the emergency situation, this device fetches the current
location of woman and sends it to emergency contacts via Global System for Mobile
(GSM) module. The safety device also includes a bright Light Emitting Diode(LED) flash,
a hooter or siren, and a shock giver circuit which is intended to hurt the attacking or
abusing person, due to which there is a chance for the women to escape. The heartbeat rate
and temperature are also displayed on an interfaced Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display.

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 1. INTRODUCTION
This women safety device is a microcontroller based system. An ATmega8 microcontroller
is one of the series AVR microcontrollers, one of the oldest yet commonly used
microcontrollers. It has the less complex features than other microcontrollers and it is also
easily available and cheap in comparison of other microcontrollers.The implementation of
women safety system was done on AVR microcontroller via GSM modem and the
interfacing is done through MAX-RS 232.
Communication of alarming situation & prevention of incident has achieved by GPS, GSM
technology, and defensive system respectively. This is the aim of our system. As a result
the design is separated into two parts.
A) Message of the offense throughout wireless
B) Prevention of the crime.
1) The women wearing a watch or band when finds that someone is going to harass, she
presses a switch that is located on the watch or band, which is accompanied by a condition
check by temperature and heartbeat sensor. The signal gets transmitted to GSM module
which then decodes the received information (either some code or name) and then activates
the AVR microcontroller in which contacts of 4 people and message “HELP” is stored in
memory is sent to the destination through GSM.
2) This safety device works for self-defense and prevention of crime as well. As soon as
the emergency situation is detected, a bright flash light as well as a loud siren are turned on
which alert the people nearby about the woman in danger. In panic, if a woman is not able
to shout out, this device can easily indicate about her dangerous situation to people
surrounding by. Also, for self-defense, this device includes a shock generator which a
woman can use against an attacker in case of emergency. This shock is intense enough to
scare the attacker away.

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 2. WORKING
2.1 VIEWS ON WOMEN SAFETY
As we all know that India is a most famous country all over the world for its great tradition
and culture where women are given most respected place in the society from the ancient
time. It is the country where women are considered as safer and most respected. Women
are given the place of Goddess Lakshmi in the Indian society. Indian women are found
working in all fields like aeronautics, space, politics, banks, schools, sports, businesses,
army, police, and many more. We cannot say that this country has no any women concern
however we cannot ignore positive points for women in India. If we remember our history,
we found that there was PanchaaliPratha in which a single woman (Draupadi) was allowed
to get married to five men (Pandavas). It was all that what we see from our open eyes
however if we see behind the curtain we will found all the crimes against women at home,
offices, streets, etc. By seeing last few crimes against women in India such as rape cases,
acid attacks, etc, the safety of women has been in doubt.Safety of women matters a lot
whether at home, outside the home or working place. Last few crimes against women
especially rape cases were very dread and fearful. Because of such crimes, women safety
in India has become a doubtful topic. According to the statistics of National Crime Records
Bureau, highest rate of crime against women was recorded in the Chennai in 2000 (around
4,037 incidences). Chennai is the capital of southern state of Tamil Nadu however has been
marked as city with high rate of crimes against women. However, it was seen some
decrease in the crime rate against women in the subsequent years (around 838 by 2013). It
has been recorded as the largest fall in the crime rate than other cities in India. It was just
opposite in the capital of India, Delhi. Crime rate against women in Delhi was
17.6/100,000 females in 2000 (2,122 incidents) and 151.13/100,000 females in 2013
(11,449 incidents).
Some of the most common crimes against women are rape, dowry deaths, sexual
harassment at home or work place, kidnapping and abduction, cruelty by husband,
relatives, assault on a woman and sex trafficking. Our primary goal of this project is to
ensure every woman in our society to feel safe and secured. According to the survey in
India 53% of working women are not feeling safe - Women is working in night shift
(Bangalore56%, Chennai-28%, Hyderabad-35%, Mumbai-26%). Overall 86% of working
women in India, women facing hurdles are high in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata
and Pune comparatively to other places. Women Safety Device can play a major role by
providing women a safe environment in all situations for example (detecting hidden
camera, physically threatened, harassed, robbery, stalked). Implementing real time
application and a device, we can solve the problems to an extent. With further research and
innovation, this project can be used as a small wearable device like watch, pendent etc.

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 3.IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTED IN WOMEN
SAFETY DEVICE
3.1Sensing Units
The women safety device senses the emergency situation with the help of sensing unit that
consists of three
elements:
1) Heartbeat Sensor – Working on the principle of IR reflection by blood, this sensor keeps
a count of woman’s
heartbeat. Fig. 1 shows the heartbeat sensor.
2) Temperature Sensor – This sensor keeps a track of woman’s body temperature and
sends the generated
analog data to controller.
3) Push Button – It’s a simple Dual Port Double Throw (DPDT) switch that the woman
presses when she is in
an emergency situation and needs help.

Fig 1. Heartbeat Sensing Unit

3.2 Controller Unit

ATmega8Lis an 8-bit high performance microcontroller of Atmel’s Mega AVR family

with low power consumption. Atmega8L is based on enhanced RISC architecture with 130
powerful instructions. Most of the instructions execute in one machine cycle. ATtmega8L
can work on a maximum frequency of 16MHz. ATmega8L devices are available in 28-pin
as shown in Fig. 2.
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 Fig 2 ATmega8/ATmega8L

3.3 Location Tracking Unit

Current location of woman is fetched by this unit with the help of GPS module. GPS
Module comes with a POT (Patch on Top) ceramic antenna which makes it a small and
complete solution for enabling GPS navigation to various embedded devices and robots.
Module comes with a standard 2mm DIP pin headers which provides easy interface to your
device and is shown in Fig. 3.

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 Fig 3. Location Tracking Unit
3.4 Cellular Messaging Unit

Location of women along with an emergency Short Message Service (SMS) is sent to
police and relatives by GSM module. GSM/GPRS module is used to establish
communication between a computer and a GSM-GPRS system. Global System for Mobile
(GSM) is an architecture used for mobile communication in most of the countries.
GSM/GPRS module consists of a GSM/GPRS modem assembled together with power
supply circuit and communication interfaces (like RS-232, USB, etc) for computer as
shown in Fig. 4.

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 Fig 4. Cellular Messaging Unit

3.5. Display Unit

Location of women along with an emergency SMS is sent to police and relatives by GSM
module. GSM/GPRS module is used to establish communication between a computer and
a GSM-GPRS system. Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) is an architecture
used for mobile communication in most of the countries. GSM/GPRS module consists of a
GSM/GPRS modem assembled together with power supply circuit and communication
interfaces (like RS-232, USB, etc) for computer.

3.6 Alerting Unit

A simple, but powerful and effective way to raise an alarm is through a loud siren and
bright lights. And this is achieved with the help of a bright LED flash light and an
electronic siren. Thus, when the women safety device senses the emergency situation of a
woman, it triggers its alerting unit which alerts the nearby people about the crime by loud
noises and bright flashes of lights.

3.7 Self-Defense Unit

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In a situation where less or no people are nearby, a woman must be able to protect and
defend herself as well as create some trouble for the abuser by some very easy means. The
self-defense unit consists of a shock generator devices that produces an instant electric
shock which when used by the woman can immobilize and hurt the attacker as shown in
Fig. 5.

Fig 5. Self Defence Unit

Some other ideas that can be implemented in device are – As the technological changes or
new requirement from user to enhance the functionality of product may requires new
version to introduce. Although the System is complete and working efficiently, new
modules which enhance the system functionality can be added without any major changes
to the entire system. By keeping this ability of the product in mind, an incremental process
model has been used to design and develop the system. Among the various modules few
are identified, which couldn’t be included in the last increment due to time constraints.
These are as follows:

3.8 Primary School Children Safety

As the school children safety are major concerns for parents as well as school
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management due to the recent incidents of child crimes like children missing, abuse etc.
This module can be used to monitors the child safety when they are travelling in school
buses. Once they have reached the school they press button and message is sent to the
parents that, “the child reaches the school safely”. The device can further be extended as
capability of audio recording when activated that can be listened by the parents or
authorize person.

3.9. Vehicle Safety System Module

The Safety of four and two wheeler car is also a major concern in the society due to the
increase in the crime rate of stolen car. The location tracking and sensing module can be
modified according to the requirement of vehicle safety system module.

3.10 Mobile and other valuables Safety System Module

The missing rate of mobiles is high while travelling from bus, train or crowed public area.
The area zone module functionality further enhances to provide safety. A small device
needed to keep either in same pocket or within the range of few centimeters. As you kept
the mobile and forget to pick up or someone has stolen it then for small range the siren of
mobile as well as device gets ON for user attention. Also the same device can attach to our
luggage, hence in case of forgetting to pick back or tried to be stolen by someone can be
easily noticed by the module and make the attention of user through the siren alarm. Apart
from this in future this module can be moulded in form of a jewellery piece like pendent or
earing, which will be unknown to others, having it more fashionable appearance.
Wristwatch can also be realised using this. A shot gun can be added as a future defense
mechanism. Further an Android app can be developed for woman safety and security
purpose. Hence, the advance technology makes the system more robust and reliable. As the
new modules provide the functionality which enhance the safety and security.

IV .BLOCK DIAGRAM AND FLOW CHART OF OPERATION OF THE WOMAN

SAFETY DEVICE

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 Fig 6. Block Diagram of Women Safety Device

Fig 7. Flow Chart Of Women Safety Device

5.CONCLUSION
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In conclusion, the Women Safety Device was successfully able to fetch heartbeat and
temperature readings of a woman’s body. A threshold condition of 100 beats per minute
and 38°C was set above which the buzzer would turn on, after turning on, it sent the
message to the police and known relatives via GSM messaging module. The sent message
includes the current position of the woman which is fetched by the location tracking GPS
module. When the device was turned on, readings displayed on the LCD screen were zero
beats and room temperature respectively. When the device came into contact with the
body, it started showing woman’s heartbeat and temperature readings on the LCD screen.
As the emergency situation arises, when the heartbeat as well as body temperature rise
above the set threshold, the conditioned is checked by the microcontroller and when found
true, it turns on the alerting unit that includes a bright LED flash light and an electronic
siren. The LED flash light alerts the nearby people by starting to flicker and the electronic
buzzer starts to produce loud noises. These are clearly an indicative of the further safety
features such as Shock giver etc.
So, the device achieved what it was aiming. The location of the woman was successfully
tracked down and with the help of GSM, appropriate help can be sent on time and the
suspect can also be tracked down ensuring complete safety and security of the woman.

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