![]() ![]() ![]() Sanghi said the objective is to ensure pan-India implementation of the panic button before the end of this calendar year. It's a silent panic button, where a person in distress basically sends an SOS signal with GPS coordinates by pressing a button on his or her cell phone the data is sent to responders. Once the trial is successful in UP, it will be implemented in three other states identified by the Centre and eventually in the entire country. A Free App and Panic Button Combo: Arlo Safe A Running App to Share Your Location With Friends: Strava An App for Alerting Friends or Police: Sabre An App for Recording the Police: Mobile. The WCD joint secretary said the volunteers would be screened by the authorities and would receive an orientation on how to provide help to a woman in distress. Nearly 25-50 volunteers in the vicinity of the victim will also be alerted through messages, he said. Following this, five SMSs will be immediately sent to police authorities, and another three to five SMSs will be sent to family members of the victim," the official said. "Once, a user presses the panic button, five calls will be made to emergency number 112. Sanghi said the government although was yet to notify which button on a phone would function as the panic button. However, a person using a basic phone need only press the designated key, he said. Gandhi said an earlier trial of the project saw a large number of prank calls, leading to a delay in implementing the panic button feature.Ĭhetan Sanghi, Joint Secretary, WCD explained that all new phones in the country now have a panic button, but the back-end architecture is being implemented in Uttar Pradesh.Ī smart phone user will have to download a mobile application which will send alerts if a victim long presses the panic button on the phone. "If it works in UP, it can work anywhere," she quipped in a veiled reference to the high crime rate in the northern state. "The pilot project (to test the panic button backed by a real-time police response) will start in the state of UP from January 26," the Women and Child Development (WCD) minister told reporters at an event here. Panic-Buttons-in-the-City The new panic buttons have key features designed for business applications. They can be used anywhere there is a phone connection. However, implementation of the order was delayed by a year for various reasons. The mobile panic button provides advanced capability and operates through cell phone services so are not tethered to one location. ![]() 'Panic button' on mobiles to ensure women safety Trial to begin from UP on Jan 26 Smart phones without the facility of an emergency call, too, will have to have the same provision, or allow use of power on or off button as the panic button. The order said the phones will have to have the panic button in the form of numeric key 5 or 9 to invoke emergency calls. In April, 2016, the Department of Telecommunications had, through a gazette notification, made it mandatory for mobile manufacturers to provide panic buttons in cell phones by January, 2017. ![]()
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