Design and implementation of a threat detection and notification safety system for a person under threat

Abstract

Now days, insecurity is on the rise due to a number of factors including but not limited to drug abuse, high population growth, urbanization, and unemployment among others. Moreover, incidents of insecurity such as kidnap, rape, burglary and sexual harassment are usually experienced by vulnerable people such as women, elderly, and children who may not be in position to fight off perpetrators. In this way, when faced by such incidents, these have to rely on external support in order to be rescued. However, achieving this necessitates a number of aspects: First, there should be a mechanism or a distress signal to alert the rescue agency that the victim is under a security threat. Such an agency could be the police, ambulance, friend, parents, among others.; Secondly, there should be a mechanism for the rescue agency to know the real-time location of the victim; Thirdly, in case of need for prosecution of perpetrators, there should be a mechanism to capture evidence that may be used to trace the perpetrators. Given the above, this proposal seeks to design and implement a system capable of sending a distress signal whenever a person is under a security threat including the real time location of the victim even under cases of mobility such as kidnap. Additionally, the system incorporates an imaging unit which is able to capture the scenery in which the threat is taking place. Such information can then be used for evidence gathering and analysis for possible prosecution.