{"id":14891,"date":"2013-11-24T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2013-11-24T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:31:09","slug":"c-dac-launches-mobile-app-for-personal-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/c-dac-launches-mobile-app-for-personal-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"C-DAC launches mobile app for personal safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of growing incidents of violence against women, <a title=\"CDAC Trivandrum: How to apply, Everything you need to know\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/cdac-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">C-DAC <\/a>has developed a mobile application which would soon integrate with police control rooms in the State.<\/p>\n<p>App users can send a distress signal by pressing a button or a swiping the screen to the nearest police control room in the event they feel threatened or lost. \u00a0The new system will be first implemented as a pilot project for the Jaipur police in Rajasthan in December.<\/p>\n<p>Once the phones become integrated with the police control room, law enforcers will be able to pinpoint the location of the victim on a digital map of their respective area of jurisdiction and also know the victim\u2019s name, contact details, and even, view their image.<\/p>\n<p>Police will be able to track the victims in real time and can signal the nearest police patrol vehicle to the spot. The system can automatically display the shortest route to the victim&#8217;s location. The app can even transmit sounds to the police control room once the smartphone user initiated the distress signal. A portal will be opened soon for the people to register themselves and download the app. Users will have to send an SMS to the portal to authenticate their stated identity.<\/p>\n<p>C-DAC, have plans to integrate application into a wrist watch or carried as a handy electronic personal safety device, designed as a first level of protection for people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of growing incidents of violence against women, C-DAC has developed a mobile application which would soon integrate with police control rooms in the State. App users can send a distress signal by pressing a button or a swiping the screen to the nearest police control room in the event they feel threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-14891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}