Girls’ Special Bodyguard anywhere at any time (SHE)

(Illustration of device The Society Harnessing Equipment (SHE)

Technology NEWS: She is Rimpy Tripathy- a 21-year-old engineering student from Gogamukh which lies on the border of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of Assam. The girl from this backward corner of the country has attracted global attention for her inventions-an anti-rape device and a DTMF-controlled autiomatic floor cleaner.As she is dreaming big, Rimpy has now entered a global contest for her latest inventions becoming a youth icon in her own right.

The daughter of Adhesh Tripathy and Suvasha Tripathy,Rimpy, a student of SRM University, Chennai was greatly disturbed by the Delhi gang rape incident.She at once decided to check the menace that affects female dignity and identity.After long discussions with her class-mates in her hostel,Rimpy came out with an innovation –SHE, a device which will revolutionize the society while fighting violence against women.

The Society Harnessing Equipment (SHE) is an anti-rape device that can fully protect a women from rape at any time and at any place.It is a bra that can deliver 3800 KV electric shock to anyone who attempts to molest or grope a women. If someone tries to grab the bra, it generates electric shock on the outer side and if a person thus receives the shock,person cannot stand up again for about 10 minutes.The battery attached to the device can create such electric shocks up to 82 times.Following the act of grabbing , the pressure sensor attached to the device sends messages to two different locations – one to a family member or anyone whose number has been fixed and the other to the nearby police station.The first message informs the location with the mobile GPS and GSM tracking device, and the next message is sent as an SOS.The device can also be kept on an ‘off’ or ‘on’ mode with a swith.Futher , plans are there to interface the system with a smartphone by using Bluetooth which,in turn, will send crisis messages instantly to the people who need to be contacted in cases of emergency.

The wearer of SHE is protected against this shock as the entire system is in a bi-layer fabric that insulates the wearer.The pressure values for squeeze, pinch and grab have been calibrated on the device and the force applied on hugging does not meet the conditions for activation of the device, and there is also a sef-actuation switch through which a women can activate it herself when in an unsafe environment.

SHE is developed by her small team Rimpy’s fellow students at SRM,Chennai –Niladri Basu Bal, a student of instrumentation and control Engineering, and Manisha Mohan, a student of Automobile Engineering - The SHE project has been a completely independent one by Rimpy and her two classmates where they used their own pocket money.

Wordy by Farhana Ahmed