It's late. The walk home is normally nothing. Tonight it doesn't feel that way — and your phone is at the bottom of your bag.
DISCREET. FAST. EVIDENCE THAT PROTECTS.
A tiny wearable safety device that records, alerts, and protects you when you can't reach your phone — one press, and it's already working.
We're building this before we launch publicly, and we won't pretend we don't need help to get there. This page is us asking you to join us — not a deal, just the truth about where we are and an honest way to help.
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Want to help right now, today? Chip in £1 and you're directly fueling our early prototyping phase. Your support helps us build a foundation where we can eventually subsidize devices for individuals in high-risk situations who face financial barriers.
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We'd rather tell you the truth than sound finished.
Crowdfunded hardware has a trust problem, and we're not going to add to it. Here's exactly where things stand today — not where we wish they stood.
Schematic, circuit board, and casing are fully engineered and reviewed. First physical boards are heading to fabrication next — this isn't a render.
CNEH, our evidence platform, exists as working code today — capture, alerts, and a cryptographic chain of custody.
We didn't start with a render and a guess.
Before a single line of marketing copy, we did the unglamorous work: talking to the people this is actually for.
- — Problem validation: sitting with real people and confirming this is a problem worth solving, not one we assumed.
- — Solution validation: testing whether what we'd designed actually addressed it, before committing to a final build.
- — Guided pilots with early prototypes: putting working hardware in real hands and watching what happened, not just asking what people thought.
Built by one engineer. Started by one experience.
My name is Joseph Atula, and I am the founder of Peoples Defence. As part of the York Science Park incubator, this project didn't start from a gap spotted in a market report—it was born out of difficult personal experiences. I am building this because personal security shouldn't be theoretical, and I need your support to make this vision a reality.
We create a discreet, wearable personal safety device equipped with an integrated micro-camera and microphone. When activated, the device instantly transmits emergency location alerts to your trusted contacts while simultaneously capturing and securely storing real-time ambient audio and video footage.
This establishes a verifiable evidence timeline for complex cases involving covert or recurring crimes, ensuring you always have unshakeable documentation of what occurred. Support the Peoples Defence early prototype phase for just £1. No opinions before safety. To get to know more about me, my background, or to reach out directly with questions and insights, connect with me on LinkedIn.
This is what we're actually building.
Not a concept render. The real device, designed to be as small and discreet as we could make it.
- Size36mm — about the size of a large coat button. Version 2 brings that down to 28mm, 30% smaller and lighter.
- WeightAround 18g. Light enough to forget you're wearing it.
- EvidenceEncrypted and time-stamped the moment it's captured, not after the fact.
- ActivationA single press. No app to open, no menu to find, while something is happening.
V1 is deliberately simple. Here's what that means, and what's next.
We'd rather ship one thing that works perfectly than five things that sort of do. Version 1 is built around a single, reliable action. Everything below it is either already running quietly in the background, or on the roadmap once V1 has proven itself.
It only works if you'll actually wear it. So it goes wherever you already are.
Clipped, hung, worn, or tucked into something you already carry — built around how people actually dress and move, not the other way around.
Paying for safety shouldn't be the only way to get it.
This isn't a finished programme yet, and we won't pretend it is. But we're building Peoples Defence around a specific idea, not bolting it on later.
We're working toward a model where the people who can pay for a device help fund discounted or free access to verification and evidence support for people who can't — including victims who need this most and have the least. We'll tell you exactly how this develops, the same as everything else on this page.
Not "support our journey." The honest version.
The questions we'd ask too.
Q.Isn't a camera-equipped wearable just a surveillance device?
No — it's built to be the opposite. PD-CAM-001 doesn't passively record. It activates with a single discreet press, captures evidence of an incident, and seals it for the person wearing it. It exists to give the wearer a verifiable record of something done to them — not to watch them.
Q.What happens to the footage, and is my data safe?
Captured evidence is sealed using a cryptographic chain of custody, designed around UK GDPR and PACE 1984 admissibility standards from the start — not added on afterward.
Q.When will this actually ship?
We won't put a date on this page until our larger pilot production run is complete and confirmed. We'd rather say "not yet" than say a date we can't keep — especially on a safety device.
Q.Is my £1 actually refundable?
Yes. If you want it back, ask and it's returned — no questions, no guilt. We'd rather you give because you want to than feel stuck.
You're never unprotected.
JOIN US. WE'D RATHER BUILD THIS WITH PEOPLE THAN FOR THEM.
We're not pretending this is easy or that we don't need help — that's the whole point of this page. If this matters to you, this is how you help, today, before we're anywhere near a finished campaign.