The escalation of rapes recently in India has led a group of engineers to develop lingerie with GPS capable of sending alerts to a woman’s parents and police that, she is being sexually assaulted.
According to a report in the The Times of India, “The lingerie with global positioning system (GPS), global system for mobile communications (GSM) and also pressure sensors, is capable of sending shock waves of 3,800 kV as well as alerts to parents and police,” says Manisha Mohan, co-developer of the innovative product named Society Harnessing Equipment (SHE).
Mohan added that the shocks can be emitted up to 82 times and the device gives women “freedom from situations faced in public places.”
Someone trying to molest a girl will get the shock of his life the moment pressure sensors get activated and the GPS and GSM modules would send an SMS to police and the girl’s parents, Mohan said.
Mohan, an engineering student of SRM University in Chennai, along with her two colleagues Rimpi Tripathi and Neeladri Basu Pal, developed the prototype of SHE.
The group has approached the National Institute of Fashion to assist in finding the right kind of fabric for the product so it can be washed.
