Android based School Safety Application for Safety of School

In today’s world, people using smart phones have increased rapidly and hence, a smart phone is used efficiently for security purposes. The heinous incident that outraged the entire nation have waken us to go for the safety issues and so a host of new apps have been developed to provide Safety of school children via their phones. This paper has focused on the application developed for the safety of school children. Safety of school children has always been of utmost priority for GeoHazards Society (GHS). GHS has conducted many training programs for school safety advocates in partnership with State governments including several states. As a part of the project, GHS has also developed a School Safety App with support from Thales Foundation. App consist of several modules including detailed school profile, hazard profile of the school, School hazards identification, the formation of disaster management teams, development of evacuation plans, Guidance for conducting drills, preparing drill reports etc.