© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский TOMSK, Jun 23 –
RIA Tomsk. Engineers of Tomsk
innovative company INTEC helped the Russian-American startup to develop a ring
with the "alarm" button which will allow to call for help if its
owner is in trouble, the head of INTEC Nikita Kalinovsky reported RIA Tomsk.
Authors of Nimb startup declared to raise funds for
the project on the crowdfunding Kickstarter platform. All necessary sum, 50
thousand dollars, were succeeded to collect for couple of days. According to
the business plan, the beginning of production is planned for December, 2016,
start of sales – in 2017.
"We were developers on this project. The
Russian-American company asked us for the help in development of the ring and
program infrastructure – a cloud service and a mobile application (for
management of the ring - Ed.). <…> The customer come to us with a clear
understanding of what he wants", – Kalinovsky told.
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He explained that the device represents a stylish ring
inside of which is – all electronics, necessary for a signal transmission. The
system is activated by the button from the inside of a ring which is pressed
easily by one hand. To avoid a false alarm, the button is arranged so that
works, only if to press it for several seconds.
The interlocutor of agency specified that when the
button is pressed the signal will come to the emergency services (if with them
such agreement is reached), and also to people whom the owner of a ring
registered in a cloud service as the relatives. The sensor will fix location at
the moment of alarm and to show the way passed by the person to a signal.
According to him, Tomsk device has analogs. However,
as residents of Tomsk assume, their device the first will enter the market. It
will be capable to work up to 30 days without recharge. Besides, development of
the card of criminogenic zones for the application is conducted, which will
help the user to understand that he goes to the unsafe place, and in advance to
warn relatives.