"This can be used by women and elderly citizens to trigger alarms and also send signal to pre-identified phone numbers," Rajiv Gauba, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, said.
"We have roped in Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram for this project," Gauba, who is associated with the e-governance group of the ministry, said.
He was speaking at a conference on 'Secure Cities 2013' on how information technology is transforming the security architecture in India.
Gauba, however, added that the challenge lay in making the device affordable for everyone and then going for mass production.
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