Design and Analysis of Smart Shoe for Women Safety in Different Terrain

Crimes committed against women are continuously increasing. Most of the crimes are committed when the woman is outside her residence and alone. In this paper an attempt has been made to develop a smart shoe to stop these atrocities against women. The Smart shoe consists of a force sensor placed in each shoe. On tapping the backside of the left shoe together with the left side of the right shoe, if the threshold is crossed by both the force sensors, an SOS message will be sent to the pre-saved contacts with the location coordinates every 30 seconds. To decrease the scope of error two sensors instead of one is used. The device will only be triggered if the threshold is crossed by both the sensors. Due to the position of the sensors the device gives accurate results in all the terrains. Thus resulting in no false alarm. Shoes were tested on level ground and on inclined ascent by two volunteers. Efficiency of the shoes designed is validated with the experimental results. The result obtained clearly shows that the device is highly accurate and only activated under certain parameters. If a woman is accompanied by a device which will alert her contacts if she is in distress, she will certainly feel safer and more confident.