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App: Defender

· 1 min read · Arnout de Vries

A black handheld Defender device with an orange cap next to a smartphone showing the app’s start screen with the text “defender – Smart Personal Protection”.

The Defender is a product for those concerned about personal protection and peace of mind. The Defender integrates elements of products and services found separately and elegantly combines them into one compact personal accessory.

  1. Self-Defense Tool
  2. Mobile Medical Alert Device
  3. 24/7 Monitoring Service

This is achieved by leveraging the communication technology of a smartphone coupled with a digital camera to capture & forward an attackers picture to law enforcement, flashing light and audible alarm to attract attention, plus the highest concentration of pepper spray available to law enforcement. The Defender includes a 24/7 response for safety and medical alerts, when you maintain your service agreement and every Defender that is sent to contributors will include one year of service (12 months).

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Instantaneously, The Defender takes a photo, initiates an alarm, and disrupts an attacker. The Defender connects to the iOS or Android app, which sends the picture, GPS location and other user authorized information to our 24/7 monitoring service. Both safety and medical alert features are available. Medical alerts are deployed by sliding a separate button. Once initiated this alert connects directly with a central station monitoring service to notify medical authorities. Users can rapidly transmit to medical personnel user preauthorized information.

Alert Friends & Family
In addition to our 24/7 monitoring service, The Defender app will also alert 5 contacts for safety alerts and 5 contacts for medical alerts (depending on which alert button is activated). The Defender will alert the contacts you select with an alert (either medical or law enforcement) using text or e-mail messages.

Four-step promotional graphic titled Identify, Alert, Defend and Response: a close-up of a man’s face, an operator at a monitoring screen showing that photo, pepper spray aimed at the man, and a police car with flashing lights.

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Questions about this article

What does The Defender do?

It is a handheld personal protection device that photographs an attacker, sounds an alarm with a flashing light and sprays pepper spray. Via a smartphone app it sends the photo and GPS location to a 24/7 monitoring service.

Does The Defender also work for medical emergencies?

Yes. Sliding a separate button sends a medical alert to a central station monitoring service, which notifies medical authorities and can receive information the user has authorised in advance.

Who is notified when The Defender is used?

Besides the 24/7 monitoring service, the app alerts up to five chosen contacts for safety alerts and five for medical alerts by text or email, depending on which button is used.

Questions and answers added in 2026, based on the article above.