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Smart Ambulance System
Poonam Gupta
Dept. of Computer, GH. Raison
College of engineering and
management, Waghol
Wagholi, Pune
Satyasheel Pol
Dept. of Computer, GH. Raisoni
College of engineering and
management, Waghol
Kothrud, Pune Pune
Dharmanath Rahatekar
Dept. of Computer, G.H. Raison
College of engineering and
management, WagholiHjewadi,
Avanti Patil
Dept. of Computer,
G.H. Raisoni, college of engineering
‘and management, Wagholi
Viman Nagar, Pune
ABSTRACT
Emergency medical response in India is lagging behind other
countries. This is partially because of lack of technology
Jmplementtion at ground zero. To address the isue, we are
jntroducing smart ambulance system. It would take fadia to
competitive postin in emergency services round the globe.
‘Over the last few years there is a revolutionary development
in the field of Intemet of Things (loT). It can be used
seamlessly & widely in large number of end system where
Subset of a large amouat of data can be accessed. and
processed eaily and powerfully. ToT and_smariphone
{echnolopes helps in building a platform which serves every
smariphone user. The application collects location
information from Global Positisg System (GPS) hardware
and uscs Google Map Application Programming Interface
(API) to plot details ofthe ambulances on the Google Map
Client of the Smartphone App. Same functionality can be
used for the other module which enables user to find the
hospitals with the mimber of services provided by those in
brie? manner, With the help of medially equipped and
technologieally powered ambulance, information about
patients health details can be sent to the hospital im onder to
fake further action, Interaction between the smeriphone and
‘centralized database can be done wsing Representational
State Transfer Application Programming Imertace (REST
‘APls) The platforms that ae used, capable of molding into
various services that ae implemented and itis believed that
‘hese technologies can make a revolutionary work in public
GPS work i uilizeé properly
Keywords
Hospital, Ambulance,
Smartphones, GPS, Ri
1. INTRODUCTION
In today’s era, there are many cits which are working on
‘wansforming themselves into Smart Cites. Ifthe ety is going
to be called as Smart City them it should have all possible
advancements inthe sector of smart technology. Improving
‘ficiency in healthcare sector if one ofthe dificult and most
‘challenging jobs. Tat includes various aspects such a getting
ambulance within minimum amount of tie, providing proper
treatment 10 the patient so that the chances of surviving
iereass in critical contin. Trafic congestion ie one ofthe
major problems in urban areas, which have caused much
Initches forte ambulance. Morsover road accidents in the city
smergeney, Public Safety, Smart City,
1, 1SON,
have been increased and to bar the loss of life de to the
accidents even more eral.
‘We ean overcome these limitations by upcoming thology
ike ToT[I] ie, Internet of Things. Vatious hardware devices
san be connected with each other via wired and Wireless
networking tools and software implementations. Use of
REST APIs can help to communicate between the server and
lien end which i implemented in this project,
REST APIs ate designed in such a way that time complexity
will be minimized extensively, This is achieved by
exchanging only the required data with server in order 10
minimize the waie and loss of data packets inthe process of
transaction. With the help of cuting edge tschnology and
keeping the goal in ind We've developed this application. I
js also an aempt to participate actively in the process of
transforming into smart city and make required services more
accesible
2. RELATED WORK
Google has developed API for user's ease, Gaogle Maps gives
information about hospitals nearby, with its rating. and
distance fom user's cuvent location. ‘The drawhack of
Google Maps is that ic ony pins the hospitals but does not
pwovide their detiled information. Hence user may need 10
accest information about the hospital by going t0 petcule
hospital's website
Smart ambulance system application overcomes this
Aawhack and gives bospia) information related to user's
medical emergency, 1s a protocol that gives information
eficiently about the patients health including pulse, blood
pressure ete. It also tells about the respective drugs and.
medicines automaticaly. All thsi informed tothe doctor and
the caretaker about the patient's condition. All these
interactions ere contolled and takes place under Ambient
Assisted Living (AL) system, This Project has a faelity of
Aelvering the presribed drugs to the patients. A Device
named Usigutous Drag Injector (UD also has designed
(One More pervasive device is designed which is for patients
tyeecives inputs from the ambient sensor devices. I cortectly
infers the patent's condition. All the things done in this
project facilitates in prescribing appropriate drugs for the
respective disease and saves lot of time (2.
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‘This projet has a goal to erate a smart environment at the
hospital andthe ICU unit i¢ the main aim, Here a smal
diference or the treatments given a that ime ean make great
changes. For implementing this researchers have used ZigBee
Which is a witless Communication prosocol, OSGi its a
‘middleware calle as Open Service Gateway initiative. A
Iknoplerfish is uted which 8 a Famework for implementing
‘OSGi. The ICU ean be made more sophisticated by the use of
pervasive computing devices, sensor, and wireless
‘communication tcchologics. This projet helps doctor o get
information about his patint admited in the ICU. All the
‘changes inpatients physical contin can be received bythe
doctor remotely. Various outputs given by the monitoring
‘systems is collected. It is then sent to the orchestration server
fan which hosts the web services, A camera is fixed at the
pitients end. All the collected informatio ofthe live feds of|
the patent is stored at the gistibuted database, It i then
displayed inthe web service acvording wo the doctor. Hence,
doctor gets information about the patint’s condition and
‘atetaker gots the information about the prescription of the
patent (3
‘The Importance of communication during the disaster times i
understood well by this project. Emergeney situation includes
Gisasters Ike fire, medical emergencies, accidents,
‘arthquake, floods of any other natural calamity. The project
‘works on enabling a hoe smart phons based communications
a the emergency time over WEF), to aval the serve the
person in trouble shall call EMS(Emergency Management
System) designed by ths project. Requests are received by the
server. Lent server system principle is used the server
responds 1 the clients roquet, Client and rescue applicstion
is developed as an andeoid application. Server is implemented
as web based application. The system is tested using various
(GPS enabled android Phone (4),
“The health status ofthe wiclss sensor networks is relatively
‘pague tothe networks administrators, and they are deployed
to monitor the environment. This project provides detestion of|
Faure and symptom alerts also, The projet is divided into 2
pants-a5, energy eflicient protocol and diseibuted failure
Getector module. Energy ficient protocol is used for
Gelivering state summaries. The failure detector is robust to
packet losses and atiempts tht the reports of flute will not
exceed a specifi rate on negative side. The findings are
evaluated by implementing for try OS platform on Mica2
notes on a 35-node network, and find thatthe project gins
090% reduced bandwidth usage as compared to standard
ata collection methods [5
3, ABOUT SMART AMBULANCE
SYSTEM
3.1 Overview
‘The system ig divided into two modules depending on thei
functional & behavioral implementation. Both modules work
‘on the principle of IoT [8] with the help of REST APIs. Fast,
‘module is used to find locations of ambulances within the
‘km radius from user's location. Alko the same module is
‘used to find hospitals and thir services within radius of 10km
‘of users current location,
Here user's location is traced using GPS hardware device. The
location i retrieved in the form of double value as latitude
and longitude. Eg. 19-54526, 7387099. This isthe format of
the latitude and iongitude. Tis location is tansmited to the
sewer by executing POST request. Depending on the user's
location, server processes the data and matches with records
stored into the database. After processing of such data the
result of user's query is sent hack tothe ser inform of ISON
format
‘Smartphone application roads the response ofthe server and
retrieves the required information ang places it onto Google
tap client of smartphone device or displays ina listed format
skpending on the user's preference. A maker is used to pin
point the location of relieved data it knows as Pin. To
Aifferentate between pins that are used for pointing hospitals
tnd ambulances we've used custom pins. It makes easier to
Understand the difference evento naive use, This ean be done
using. Google Map APT's functionality. There is a set of
predefined markers that are made available by Google in thet
Google Map API. But for user's convenience custom pins are
used: That API guideline is also provided in Google Maps
Alocumentaion,
3.2 Architecture
‘We've tied 1 keep the architecture ofthe system a simple a8
possible, As there won't be need of any security model the
Echitectare complenty is automatically reduced. Following
diagram states working of module one
Diagram Fig. 1 suggests user sends requested to server
regarding the required sevice ie. either hospital information
orambulance detail,
“The second module is used to send live information about the
Pation's health to the desired hospital seleted by she user
(Figs). Using various smart” devices support enabled
hardware components, the readings will be recorded by the
system which willbe available inside the ambulance. The spp
‘vil send the data inthe form of live feeds so that hospital
Imanagement can make necessary prerequisites till patient
reaches the hospital It is said that weatment given while
‘aking patient from source place til hospital is most ercil in
case of any heart related problem and emergency. Thus
Hospital adminstrative person can guide which actions
shouldbe taken until pation teaches hospital
Figure 1: Module One: Finding Ambulances & Hospitals
igure 2; Module Two: Sending patients information to
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3.3. Design and implementation
‘The implementation of ths system is divided into server client
chteetare inorder io ake small size aplication and keep
all the data avilable cently. Tus cient i nothing but 2
Smartphone having the application andthe server sid uted for
hhandling user request and respond by procesing ther,
3.3.1 I.User application
‘This application will initally be based on Android & iOS. On
laurching the app first device will automatically detect the
location of user using the GPS devices (6), Later depending
‘om the users requirementineed user will choose option of
Finding nearby ambulances or hospitals or just view serves
provided by hospitals. This query i set in the JSON format
fo the server. Server will process on it end respond
accordingly. The response from server will also be in JSON,
format [7). Smartphone app wil read the data from response
and plot the coordinates oF information according othe User's
request.
33.2 2Server end
‘Server end is designed Keeping ease of work in mind. Iti
(hy tas ste)
Let set be the set of number of Ambulances
AS faa,
- 4)
Let set U be the set of numberof Users
U= feu ws +)
Let set S be the set of numberof Services
S=fs1.55 50 “sh
Let Result for search of Hospital queries be Ry
Ri=uy by
Let Result fr search of Ambulance queries be R,
Re-vine,
4, ADVANTAGES
1s benoicial forthe users incase of emergencies a it saves
time which gets consumed in searching forthe ambulance by
other meats.
Information about the hospitals provided helps in geting the
appropriate hospital which issuable for the patient's
Sending paticat’s health information tothe hospitals helps the
hospital staff to get things ready requited forthe weatment
Here the patient need not t wail in any ease, Hospital
information is directly provided through maps and hence there
Js no need to visit the particular hospital's website for
information. Live feeds ‘will heip for better medical
procedures which helps in saving patent's life man efecive
way.
2s5, CONCLUSION
In this paper, an idea is propose for saving apasen’' life in a
faster way possible, It is beneficial for users in ease of
emergencies as it saves time, With this Application, the
ambulance ca reach the patients a location is given through
the app and can provide necessary equipment requited fr he
pation health
Information about the hospitals provided helps in getting the
appropriate hospital which is. suitable for the patient's
treatment The live feed da sen though the ambulance to
the hospital helps in keeping tack of patients health details
and reach the hospital without any tine lag. Sending patient's
Jnealth information co the hospitals helps the hospital staf to
get the necessary presequisites regarding the patient's
Hence it reduces the time complexity and helps to provide
faster medical services
ature seope ofthis project cam be planned by wing some of
the similar concepts used in this project. In order to save lives,
there are many’ other factors which can be taken into
‘consideraon, Traffic is one ofthe most serious issue faced in
‘ay to day life, This can erate delay forthe ambulance to
reac the hospital Trafic police ean help inthis i they know
the ambulance’s current location in advance, For the same,
‘uatic police will be provided with an appliation which
shows te curent Tocstion of ambulance. through GPS,
Henceforth, tafe police willbe able to elear the tafe in
prior making way forthe ambulance
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
‘Our thanks to the experts who have contributed towards
evelopment ofthis paper.
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