The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed a smartphone app that informs citizens’ daily lives of various safety hazards.

‘K-Guard is a phone application that provides 11 safety risk notification services such as flooding, fire spreading, daily life hazards, safety for living alone, and disappearance accidents according to local situations.’

ETRI announced that it would demonstrate a life safety service that informs and prevents safety risks in daily life in the Seo-gu area of Daegu and its Indongchon Baeknyeon Village for three months from August with the support of the LH Land and Housing Institute and Daegu Metropolitan City.




ETRI Develops New App for Daily Safety Protection
‘K-Guard,’ a life safety risk prevention service app that acts through customization according to their location, age, and disabilities. The same hazard maybe not have the same level of risk according to user characteristics such as disabled or non-disabled people, pregnant women, and even elderly people. User-customized risk prevention services can enable users to get friendly with acceptance and easier to use.When approaching the hazard place, the app service provides automatic real-time notifications in voice, vibration, text, etc., by preference selection. Users don’t have to open the app and check safety concerns. They can notice risky situations and be careful.
The daily safety service is a service that contributes to community safety by informing users of risks exposed throughout the neighborhood through voluntary participation, such as active reporting by users for the safety of our neighborhood.
When a user reports via the app by taking photos of nearby risk factors, such as sinkholes, manhole cover breakage, exposed electric wires, glass fragments, and damage to pedestrian paths such as sidewalks, stairs, and construction sites, their locations are automatically recognized based on GPS.
Then, blind people, the elderly, and nearby pedestrians can be notified in real-time when they pass such risky areas and can prevent safety accidents by paying attention and bypassing hazardous places.
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K-Guard’s safety services, such as fire spreading alarms, flooding notices, air quality problems, and landslide risks, utilized open data built by government ministries, local governments, and public organizations.
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They also plan to provide the improved 'K-Guard' app as a trial service to more users and city districts next year by improving the app’s user interface, service quality, and user-dedicated customization based on the three months pilot service results.
Source-Eurekalert