Our Story
Hi! We are E-J and Maks, the Epowar co-founders. In 2020 we had the crazy thought: What if smartwatches could to detect an attack automatically? Years later, we are proud founders of the Epowar app, which exists to empower women and girls and includes our patent-pending Automatic Attack Detection technology.
How it all started
In 2020, Erin-Jane was a second-year uni student at Bath University. She was walking everywhere, often in the dark. On top of the usual day-to-day anxiety that most women experience, she became especially nervous after reports of incidents against girls at the University appeared.
She tried multiple safety gadgets to make her feel safer, such as rape alarms, but they were flimsy, unreliable, and almost impossible to access and use in a real attack. She couldn’t find a single tool to make her feel safer or empowered, so she decided to make one herself.
The core Technology
When E-J learned about Apple Watches being able to detect heart attacks, she had the ‘light bulb’ moment: What if smartwatch could automatically detect an attack? This is where Maks came in, a talented engineer. Together they were not only able to test and validate that smartwatches can IN FACT accurately detect an attack. They were also able to build and patent this technology that is now called ‘Automatic Attack Detection’.
