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‘Guardian’ to protect women
‘Guardian’ To Protect Women. The subject of ensuring safety for women has been gaining ground across the country. It has sparked a search for technological innovations that can be used by women to alert authorities in case of threat.
The app helps women in distress by alerting their friends, families as a standalone app, as well as it is available as an integrated solution for police or security agencies who can monitor distress SOS calls and provide help through a portal
The subject of ensuring safety for women has been gaining ground across the country. It has sparked a search for technological innovations that can be used by women to alert authorities in case of threat.
This was crucial as more than 30% - or about 800,000- of the employees in India’s software and services industry are women. In the business process outsourcing industry, the number is as high as 50%.
IT giant Microsoft, unveiled ‘Guardian’, a new safety app, exclusively for its Windows Phone users. “Incidents such as 'Nirbhaya' prompted the global IT giant to come out with an app, aiming to protect women,” said Raj Biyani, Managing Director, Microsoft IT India. Available exclusively for Windows Phone users, Guardian’s ‘track me’ feature allows friends and family to track them using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs.
Explaining its features, Raj Biyani, managing director, Microsoft IT India, said Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs. Guardian users can call for help through an 'SOS' alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of distress.
The phone can be traced even if it is broken. The application is capable of one touch video recording that may be used later as evidence, the official added.
"Our dedicated team wanted to do something to enable people to feel safer in our cities. So they used their spare time to develop Guardian. It is a robust personal security app with more safety features and capabilities than any other comparable app available to Indian smartphone users today," said Biyani.
“The app helps women in distress by alerting their friends, families as a standalone app, as well as it is available as an integrated solution for police or security agencies who can monitor distress SOS calls and provide help through a portal,” explains the team.
