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App: Guardian

· 1 min read · Arnout de Vries

Guardian app home screen on a Windows phone with tiles for SOS, Track Me, Locate and Report an Incident, and the user’s current location in Hyderabad.

An app from Microsoft India to prevent crimes against women. That will enable people to summon help within minutes and create effective deterrents against such crimes. Guardian has a real-time tracking and intelligent SOS alert function, a call for help and recording the evidence of attack, this application helps to pose an effective deterrent to the perpetrators of these crimes, and to help fight against these injustices.

The app helps women in distress by alerting their friends, families as a standalone app, as well as it is available as an integrated solution for Police or security agencies who can monitor distress SOS calls and provide help through a portal.

Guardian settings screen with a user profile (name, email and mobile number), a sync button and a button to force-stop SOS messages to buddies.Guardian “Track Me” screen with a map showing the route travelled between two pins, and the current speed.Guardian SOS screen listing buddies with call, message and email buttons, and emergency call buttons for police, ambulance and fire brigade.

Guardian preferences screen for informing buddies on SOS via SMS, email and a Facebook post to a selected Facebook group.Text messages from Guardian saying a user needs urgent help at a location in Hyderabad with a tracking link, followed by a message that the user is safe now.Guardian “Get Local Help” screen listing nearby police stations, hospitals and clinics with their addresses.

  • Real-time monitoring by Security agencies
  • Individuals can be tracked by respective organizations
  • Incident reporting like tease, ragging etc. along with evidence, saved in cloud
  • Security agencies can send Police/Medical Help when on SOS
  • Security agencies can assign Rescue Marshals

Guardian Portal web dashboard with counters for SOS, active, inactive and incident cases and a map pinpointing an SOS alert with timestamp and location in Hyderabad.

Sources: Guardian Portal

Questions about this article

What is the Guardian app?

An app from Microsoft India to prevent crimes against women. It has real-time tracking, an SOS alert, a call for help and evidence recording, and alerts friends and family when someone is in distress.

How can police use Guardian?

As an integrated solution, police or security agencies can monitor SOS calls in real time through a portal, track individuals, send police or medical help and assign rescue marshals.

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