SheGuardian is a cross-platform women’s safety application designed for Android and iOS, providing rapid emergency assistance through real-time alerts, live location tracking, and automated escalation mechanisms. The system prioritizes reliability, low-latency communication, and accessibility, even in low-connectivity environments.
The project focuses on reducing emergency response time by combining GPS-based geo-indexing, community-driven volunteer response, and direct integration with emergency services.
Patent Published
Title: Safety Alert System for Women (SheGuardian)
Patent Application Number: 202511096159
Authority: Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM), India
The patented system introduces a scalable architecture for real-time emergency detection, geo-indexed alert dissemination, and multi-channel notification to ensure delivery reliability during critical situations.
- One-tap SOS alert triggering with automated escalation
- Real-time GPS-based live location tracking
- Geo-indexed alert routing using Haversine Distance and Geohash
- Dual notification delivery via Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and SMS
- Community-driven volunteer response model
- Direct integration with emergency helplines and law enforcement
- Historical safety data aggregation for analysis and policy planning
- Location Processing: Continuous GPS tracking with geo-indexed radius matching
- Alert Distribution: Priority-based alert propagation to nearby responders
- Reliability Layer: Redundant notification channels (FCM + SMS)
- Scalability: Designed to support high-concurrency alert scenarios
- Fault Tolerance: Alert delivery maintained during partial network failures
- Platforms: Android, iOS (cross-platform architecture)
- Backend Services: Cloud-based APIs
- Notifications: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), SMS Gateway
- Geospatial Processing: Haversine Formula, Geohash Encoding
- Data Storage: Cloud-hosted database solutions
- Enables faster emergency response through automated alerting
- Reduces dependency on manual intervention during critical incidents
- Provides a scalable framework adaptable to urban and rural environments
- Designed for real-world deployment under variable network conditions
Pratham P. Sharma
Software Engineer | Cloud & Systems Enthusiast
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details.