Electrifying Anti-Rape Undergarment – “SHE” From Indian Engineering Students

Recently, there have been noticeable harassments in India. Although the government brings-up some tight rules, this is not going to stop until all individual women are self-capable of preventing the situation.

Now, three engineer students Niladri Basu Bal, Manisha Mohan, and Rimpi Tripathi from the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Tamil Nadu, India have taken up the situation serious and developed an anti-rape underwear.

So, whats going to be special about this underwear is that it would be capable of tracking the wearer’s location by GPS , send text message alerts to police and family in-case of emergencies and more importantly deliver 3,800 kilo-volt shock assailants! The whole device is attached to the Camisole, so women can wear it as the usual underwear.

This underwear called the Society Harnessing Equipment (SHE), is a combination wire sensors and electric circuit board attached to the camisole. These sensors could detect unwanted force on the chest area and give-out shocks and deliver up to 82 shocks to the would-be attackers. This is designed after the survey results that say that assailants tend to attack the bust area first.

 “We have initiated the idea of self‐defense which protects the women from domestic, social and workplace harassment…decided to make this project which can be implemented easily.”, team quotes.

“A person 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 the Indian emergency number) as well as to parents of the girl,” Mohan says.

SHE recently won the Gandhian Young Technology Innovation Award. And it is expected to be mass produced by the end of the month! Even-though there are questions on how this sensor could filter an appropriate behaviour from a normal friendly one or what happens the whole camisole is ripped of first, it is a healthy innovation with the aim to keep women off the unwanted force! Kudos to the students for building a safety-weapon!