Women’s Safety XPrize Winner
A new type of gadget that can help to keep women safe has won the $1 million top prize of a global open innovation competition, the Women’s Safety XPrize.
It was founded by the philanthropists Anu and Naveen Jain to address the problem of violence again women.
The Safer Pro is a small chip that can be inserted into any piece of jewelry or wearable device. If threatened a woman can press an emergency alert button and the chip sends the wearer’s GPS coordinates to the police and/or parents and friends and it starts to record live audio. It is the brainchild of a team of graduates in Delhi calling themselves Leaf Wearables.
Leveraging Innovation for Safety
According to the contest’s website, one in three women globally have faced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. In New Delhi, 92% of women have experienced some form of sexual violence in a public place in their lifetime.
“Safety is a fundamental human right and should not be considered a luxury for women,” said Anu Jain, philanthropist and entrepreneur.
The Women’s Safety XPrize was launched in 2016 and challenged participants to invent devices that could inconspicuously trigger emergency alerts to a network of responders. And they had to retail for no more than $40.
The finalists of the open innovation contest had to demonstrate the effectiveness of their devices in several environments including a public bus in Mumbai that traveled a route unknown to the participants.
For more information about the contest and the winning team, click here.
Reader Comments
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An Ungrounded floating electrical point ( totem pole) is
connected to a resistor and the other end of the resistor is
connected to a floating straight conductor 500 miles
long.This is the kind of length used in power
transmission.
The time to travel to the end of this conductor and back is
roughly 5milliseconds from resistor end.
The floating electrical point is switching from high voltage
to low at the rate 200 Hz with 50% duty cycle,which is
inverse of five milliseconds.
My theory is in-spite of everything being floating,there
will be consumption of power by the resistor.
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module in each home.
There will be only one single line getting into the house
from outside.
Thanking you.
Pl.acknowledge with comments of my invention.
G.G.Nadkarni
Mumbai,India
Posted by [email protected] on June 20, 2018
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