Wearable technology has steadily begun to make inroads into many aspects of our daily lives. Want to know how well you slept last night? Your wristband will tell you. Want to know how many calories you burned or steps you took? Gyroscopes in nearly every mobile phone can feed that info to a myriad of fitness/health apps out on the market. What what about safety? A new Kickstarter campaign by Revolar launched in January is looking to develop a piece of wearable technology that allows the user to discreetly alert emergency contacts when they are in danger.
Jacqueline Ros is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Revolar.
Revolar was created in 2013 by its founder, Jacqueline Ros, after her sister was attacked twice before the age of 17. Ros found herself wishing that she could give her sister a “magic button” that she could push in the event of trouble so she could get help. Revolar is what she created. Ros initiated a Kickstarter campaign which has yielded more than $83,000 to create the product. Bluetooth technology is used to connect the device with the user’s phone and an app powers the back-end functionality.
Once the button on the Revolar device is pressed, an emergency alert message is sent to each person on your emergency contact list. The alert message lets your loved ones know that you need help, and even provides a GPS coordinate of your location. This information is updated every three minutes.
The contact information that you pre-program into your Revolar device is safe and secure, and can be changed and updated any time you wish. The app that allows you to program the device is free. Revolar is powered by a battery that will last several months to a year, depending on the amount of use it gets. There’s no need for charging or plugging it in. When the battery runs low, you simply replace it with a standard watch battery.
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Very nice sister to do this and show that she really cares!
Staying safe is more important than it has ever been in the world today. Any startup that is going to have this at the forefront of the products it creates is going to be getting plenty of attention.
I agree. Even with so many CCTV cameras out there watching just about everything that you do, I would still prefer a little more protection and this might do the trick.
Yeah, there is literally a camera watching everything. All you have to do is find which one caught the crime and you should have evidence right there!
Exactly. How can anything happen today without it being caught or mostly caught on video?
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I really like this idea. I am going to look it up and see if it is something that I can invest in myself. Thank you for posting this!
It is sad that a new product that is going to help so many had to come from a tragedy like this. However, that is how the world corrects itself and not only did someone have this idea before, but they might have not thought it was going to work.
People see a problem and a company comes a long and makes a solution. A win-win.
Great solution to a very common problem. What if you hit the button on accident?
I am guessing there is some sort of fail safe built into the technology, right?
There would have to be. I am sure as you are running down the sidewalk in the morning, just jussling around could cause the alarm to sound, right?
Very much so. I am wondering, that when after you press the button for help, how are you going to know if anyone else is available to help? Say you are at the dentist or something and you assume the other two people on the list of contacts are available. What if they are not?