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pov: Celebrating ATL Tinkering Day with CEO of Niti Aayog

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Lovely: if I can relate to it in one word. It's not every day that the CEO of Niti Aayog himself spends time with you. But for me and my dear mate, Ishpreet Singh, it was a tremendous opportunity as well as an experience. 


Knowing Of The Tinkering Day

Tinkering Day is celebrated every year and this year the celebrations began on November 14th, the Children's Day on the occasion of Nehru Jayanti. Lacs of students from thousands of schools participated on the first day of the celebration. And the same day, we were informed that we will be given a prestige opportunity of sharing some of our ATL projects and experiences with the CEO of Niti Aayog, Parameswaran Iyer at the Niti Aayog headquarter. 

We took our Women and Child Safety Device for the presentation as well as exhibited it to other sweet colleagues at the Niti Aayog. And honestly, we were delighted by so many great responses, opinions as well as room for suggestions. 

 
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Our Project Synopsis

Women and child safety is a very important issue due to rising crimes against women these days. To help resolve this issue I designed GPS-based women and child safety system that has a dual security feature. This device consists of a system that ensures dual alerts in case a woman or a child is harassed or she thinks she is in trouble. This system can be turned on by the user in case she even thinks she would be in trouble. It is useful because once an incident occurs with a woman or child, they may or may not get the chance to press the emergency button. In a button-press alerting system, in case a woman is hit on the head from behind, she may never get the chance to press the panic button and no one will know she is in trouble. Our system solves this problem. This device is to be turned on in advance by a woman in case she is walking on a lonely road or some dark alley or any remote area. Only the woman authenticated to the devices can start the system by fingerprint scan. Once started the device requires the woman to constantly scan her finger on the system every 1 minute, else the system now sends her location to the authorized personnel number through an SMS message as a security measure and also sounds a buzzer continuously so that nearby people may realize the situation. In this case, even if someone hits the woman or the woman falls down and gets unconscious, she does not need to do anything, the system does not get her finger scanned in 1 minute and it automatically starts the dual security feature. This device will prove to be very useful in saving lives as well as preventing atrocities against women. The device uses a GPS sensor along with a gsm modem, LCD display, LEDs and a microcontroller-based circuit to achieve this system.

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Key Takeaways

Well, the experience can't be put in a better way than saying that it was nothing less than phenomenal. Not just being able to present ourselves, but there were so many other students from various schools sharing their experiences and projects as well. And we felt overwhelmed by such enormous participation of ideations. 

I can just let it be indescribable and tell you that no other major experience could even compete with the level of expertise this one had. And I really thank Niti Aayog and the central government for coming up with such laboratories all around the country.


- Penned by Sudhansu Kumar on November 15th, 2022.


Location: Niti Aayog, Sansad Marg, Sansad Marg Area, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India