‘Street Smart’: Safe Street App for Women Using Augmented Reality

Over the past few years, women safety has become a prominent issue all over the world. Today's women are empowered and they are independent too. But still, they are concerned about their safety against the violence and the harassment as they have to travel late night through unknown areas. Even if it is true that men and women are equal in every field like men women are not so strong physically in the emergency situations. Women should be provided with some helping hand to relieve them in the risky situations. As there is a tremendous increase in a number of Android users, an android phone can be used to protect the women in the risky situation. This paper presents a women safety Android application which is developed by using a number of features in smartphones like GPS navigation, digital camera, high-speed internet connectivity and many more. The proposed work helps the user to get articles and reviews about the place by just holding the camera at the location. These articles and reviews are augmented with the real scene in the camera by integrating the augmented reality. Augmented reality can be integrated into women safety app using Wikitude SDK which helps to place articles and reviews related to the current location of the user. Along with articles and reviews, the recommendation about the place such as `Safe Street' or `Unsafe Street' is also provided to the user based on the available data. The articles, reviews as well as the recommendation given by the system help the user to decide how safe or how dangerous a particular street/place is. Furthermore, the user can send calls/messages to the police and the listed contact numbers using this app in case of emergency. The message contains details about the current location of the user. If the user wants to share his experience about the place, he can post his reviews through this app.