A group of young Nigerians has developed a mobile app that aims to reduce the crime rate by offering opportunities to seek for help in emergency situations.
A statement on Monday quoted the developers as saying the app called ‘Triggr’ would reduce crime rates, offer security to its users, and provide performance and situational analytics for individuals, emergency operators and government.
According to the app’s co-founders, Okey Madubuike and David Echieanu, “Triggr is a new personal security and emergency coordination mobile application for real-time location sharing, event notification and collaboration among family members, friends and associates.”
Available on Android and iOS, they said Triggr was designed for both individuals and corporate organisations, who when threatened by circumstances, would desire the quickest engagement with their most trusted allies regardless of physical distance, and their most approximate, reliable service providers.
According to them, the launch version covers 12 emergency events comprising car breakdown, accident, robbery, flood, rape, kidnap, riot, fire, gas leakage, stalking, sickness and suicide.
The co-founders said, “With Triggr, users are no longer alone in times of distress.”
They simply press corresponding buttons on the app to broadcast useful information such as emergency type, location, time, physical distance of each preset ally, and more. This works for both online and offline mobile phones.
“The app instantly loops all the alerted allies into a dedicated virtual group coordinated response chat room, to synergise their efforts, and prevent conflicting response activities.”
