Empower
Domestic Violence Smartphone App
The World’s First Domestic Violence Application
A smartphone app that creates a mobile geo-zone around an offender’s tracking device and communicates with the survivor’s smart phone, providing an early-warning notification to the survivor or family members if they are in proximity of the offender.
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Panic Button sends an alarm to the monitoring center
and system, which initiates an outbound call -
Dispatch Button initiates an outbound call to the monitoring center
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Data Communication: survivor location, alarm and phone information is transmitted to the monitoring center
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Tracking/Reporting Intervals approximately once per minute
Features:
SafeTracks has harnessed the power of the smartphone by developing an application specifically designed for survivors of domestic violence that eliminates the need for additional GPS/communication devices and is more effective as a deterrent to unwanted encounters between offenders and survivors.
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Besides the GPS device worn by the offender, the survivor is only required to carry a smartphone that tracks her location using the most advanced GPS technology available and also enables direct communication with the monitoring center and law enforcement.
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Once the DV application is downloaded, it automatically pairs the smartphone with the offender’s device creating a “virtual zone” that travels with the survivor as she moves, such that an alert will sound if the offender comes within a set distance of the survivor’s device.
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Alerts can be sent even before the offender breaches a static or mobile exclusion zone. For example, if a static exclusion zone surrounds the survivor’s home by 200 yards at any angle, a preliminary warning alert could sound if the offender came within 500 yards of that 200 yard barrier.
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Similarly, a preliminary alert could be sent as the offender approached the survivor’s mobile exclusion zone, with a more urgent alert sent once the offender breached the specific radius surrounding the victim.
How it works:
