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EAS In Chandigarh

Abbreviations: PCR	: Police Control Room	 ;  ERC	: Emergency Remote Control: EAS	: Emergency Alarm System ;  RAT 	: Rapid Action Team CCR	: City Control Room	 ;  GPS	: Global Positioning System

‘EAS’ An Idea that can change ‘Chandigarh’

Chandigarh is now trying to grown up itself by making itself adaptable to technology, everywhere in Chandigarh. With this thinking, I have developed an idea that can change Chandigarh. An idea that is about, an installation of electronic boxes called (EAS) “Emergency Alarm System” in the city Chandigarh everywhere. Why not we should install ‘Emergency Alarm System’ for the help of public in public areas. The help may be of any kind like help for eve teasing, riot, civil disturbance, lost and found, criminal cases, women’s help, Aid to senior citizens and children’s, Helpline for emergency Accident and health cases etc. The EAS will be in electronic form that will be available everywhere in the city and will active all the time 24x7. These emergency systems will be installed …say... at every 4th or 5th light pole or in front of shops at a distance of some meters or these can also be installed at public places like Public Parks, Hospitals, Schools, Colleges, Malls, Tourist destinations, Government Buildings, Markets and Fares, police stations etc.

Let me explain how it will work:

1st Part:

These emergency systems will be of box type and equipped with Active sensors and signals having GPS facility installed inside the boxes. These electronic boxes will be install all over the city at every corner. There will be installation of some towers in the city that will receive signals from these emergency boxes. These Boxes will work like an Amplifier or Boosters.

2nd Part:

The City residents will use a type of (ERC) “Emergency Remote Control” that will available to every city resident with unique ERC number on the payment of some fee and after submitting some documents like Aadhaar card and after fulfilling some legal formalities. The ERC will be issued when a person will submit the valid information of minimum of two or more of its relatives or reference person with their Name and address proof for identification purpose of the issuer of ERC in future. The personal presence of the issuer and its reference person will be necessary for some legal formalities in the department setup for registration for EAS. The ERC will be equipped with GPS and 6 types of buttons engraved on it as shown in the model diagram given below. The system of delivery reports to city residents with sound system will also be equipped with ERC to ensure that your signal has been received and an another feedback signal will also be send to the person to tell him that help for you has been sent to your direction. GPS in the ERC will only work when a person will on the remote. When the ERC will be switched off, GPS will not work. For active working of this ERC, battery will have to be put in it. This will be like a small Television Remote control. Whenever an ERC is lost, A new ERC with new unique ERC number would be issued after the payment of required fees.

3rd Part:

A Department will be established that will scrutinize the residents and will issue these ERC after payment of some fees and after fulfill legal formalities or police record etc.

4th Part

A ‘City Control Room’ (CCR) will be established from where the emergency team called (RAT) ‘Rapid Action Team’ will handle the emergency cases regarding this.

5th part

The person who need help regarding the type of problem as mentioned in the (ERC) ‘Emergency Remote Control’ can push the button whenever he or she find himself stuck in problem (as shown in the given diagram). These ERC’s will be directly linked to electronic boxes EAS. The nearby EAS will receive signal from ERC and send the signal through towers to (RAT) ‘Rapid Action Team’ that will be sitting in the (CCR) “City Control Room”. As the alarm is raised in CCR, the RAT will be noticed about the active location in the city map from where the alarm is raised. The CCR will active immediately and send the information to the nearest PCR’s and the PCR can reach there within seconds. The GPS installed in the ERC will help the PCR to locate the exact position of a person in the city with the helping direction of RAT.

6th Part

Whenever the signal is received by CCR from a person who has press the ERC for help. The complete detail of the person including its Name, Photograph, Address, Phone No., Birth date, detail of one of its relatives etc. will be displayed on the screen of CCR. With the help of this, (if require) RAT can contact the person directly or his relatives by mobile phone also before taking any further action. From the birth date, RAT can recognize that which age of person has contacted. Even if a bogus signal is found received after verification, then RAT or PCR can easily reached to the address of a person or his location who send the call from ERC whenever his/her ERC will be switched on.

7th Part

The range of ERC will be determined in advance like ERC will not work beyond city limits. The age of a person will also be determined to whom the ERC will be issued. It will only be issued to city’s residents including who reside as Paying Guest including students after proper verification.

8th Part

EAS system can solve other problems like ERC will be issued to those who will submit their valid voter cards and Aadhaar card with Required Fees. This will make compulsory of Voter ID and Aadhaar card.

This facility will be very useful for those who would not have any source of communication, especially at night. Due to this facility, crime rate will be Zero and police will be alert all the time. This service will also be useful for small children’s. Whenever a person is lost, he can raise the yellow alarm button by identify it easily on the ERC due to which emergency teams can easily identify that where a particular person is standing and immediately a team of search and found or PCR will reach to the point from where the alarm is raised. The GPS system in ERC will help the RAT to find the exact location of the city resident. Suppose in case, a particular ERC of a person is not working, then another nearby person can bring the help by push a button from its own ERC. Also whenever a city resident will see, of happening something wrongful with strangers from the other cities, he/she can use his own ERC to give report of this.

The division of these buttons in ERC in different category of colors can also help the City Control Room in different ways. City Control Room can easily find that, which type of problem is this (as per alarm button raised) and after identifying the problem, police can ready itself according to the problem before it reaches to the location of ERC wherein the incident is happened or where the particular person is standing. But these alarm buttons should not be used for general questions of help like asking for address, small domestic problems etc.

There may be cases, where in the beginning of the launch of this programme, false or bogus alarms can be raised. The person who will use these alarms buttons for bogus complaints or for fun would be brought to district court and will be highly fined. This can be costly in the beginning but it will be highly effective and will control the crime and makes the city safer for public in the future.

It will also necessary for the city administration to give training to police and emergency team about how to tackle with these problems and how to deal with public regarding the problems and matters relating to this emergency system. It will be the duty of the city administrations to raise awareness among city’s residents about this system. Schools, Colleges and Educational Institutions will give educational awareness to students regarding this programme.

Due to installation of this system, city residents will feel safe even at late night. Shops and markets can be open even at night and city can become “The city that never sleep” in future. If the system is installed, Chandigarh will be the first city in the world to implement this type of programme. I hope this idea will be prove efficient if installed properly with laws and regulations and will make the Chandigarh the safest city in the world.



The demerits that will be derived from this idea before and after installation of this programme is still not taken into consideration in this article. We can take suggestions from the city residents and experts regarding this system.

Example of Mock Diagram of Emergency Remote Control:

Emergency alarm buttons will be of 6 types like Red, Blue, green, black and yellow and yellow/blue.

Red for		       :     Women’s help Blue for		:    Criminal activities Green for		:    Senior citizens and Children’s Black for		:    Riot or civil disturbances. Yellow for		:    Lost and Found or others Yellow/Blue for	       :     Cases relating to Accident or health problems

Abbreviations: PCR	: Police Control Room ERC	: Emergency Remote Control: EAS	: Emergency Alarm System RAT 	: Rapid Action Team CCR	: City Control Room GPS	: Global Positioning System