Development of Rakshak - A Risk Free App for People's Safety Using Map Embedded API

Safety in India is broadly talked about everywhere these days. It has now turned into a significant issue. The crime percentage is on the spike. People are neither protected outside nor at home. Also, explorers from different nations are likewise in a questionable state while pondering coming to India. There are regulations, however there must be appropriate safety estimates which we need to be followed stringently to shield them from violence. A personal safety or SOS mobile application can be thought as the much-needed solution that can be used to aid personal safety. Such apps received increased prominence in the media after the 2012 Delhi gang rape case and consequent protests against “brutal rapes, molestation and mistreatment of women”. Technology, including social and mobile tools, are playing an important role in improving overall personal safety, with technologies such as GPS, SMS, video, alerts, alarms, and more, allowing a user in distress to alert bystanders and close friends. In this paper, an android application to track people in need of help using the Global Positioning System is proposed and developed. The application can share their location with the nearest help-center and also to the nearby people along with voice recordings to analyze what is actually happening at the victim's place. The developed app will update the registered contacts on the user's location every few seconds. The GPS locations and recorded contacts are frequently stored in a database. The victim's location is communicated with greatest accuracy.