Final Year Project Proposal

Project Title: Ambulance Tracker

Major & Session: Computer Sciences (2016-2020)
Project Supervisor: Ma’am Asma Basharat
Group Members:
o Aleeza Arshad
o Attiya Khan
o Arooj Raja
o Fatima Zahra
Date: September 27,2019

Contents
1. Abstract:..............................................................................................................................................2
2. Introduction:........................................................................................................................................3
3. Methodology:......................................................................................................................................4
4. Technical Requirement:.......................................................................................................................5
5. Scope:..................................................................................................................................................5
6. Learning Outcomes:.............................................................................................................................6
7. Literature review:................................................................................................................................6
8. Future work:........................................................................................................................................7
9. References:..........................................................................................................................................8

1. Abstract:
As population increases so does the importance of emergency services. The need of emergency
services is increasing day by day. One such service is ambulance. Saving peoples’ lives is most
important in today’s world. The best way to save lives is to have an ambulance system which is
efficient, effective and can be easily reachable to the user. For emergency calls, one minute might
mean the difference between life and death. That means each minute between the emergency call
and the time the ambulance arrives on the scene is critical. Today there are a hundred ambulance
services running yet unknown to people. Every hospital has its own contact number for the
ambulance. Every private and government Service has its own contact number for ambulance.
Different NGOs are having their ambulance services which are unknown to people. It becomes

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really hectic for a person to call all these numbers and ask for an ambulance. So, we thought of
developing an application in which the patient will get the nearest ambulance on a click of a
button. The application will be an android based application. Everyone nowadays has android
phone so any person in distress can call an ambulance by just entering the location, without
seeking anyone’s help.

2. Introduction:
An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle which transports patients to treatment facilities,
such as hospitals. In some instances, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient.
Ambulances are used to respond to medical emergencies by emergency medical services. For
this purpose, they are generally equipped with flashing warning lights and sirens. They can
rapidly transport paramedics and other first responders to the scene, carry equipment for
administering emergency care and transport patients to hospital or other definitive care. Most
ambulances use a design based on vans or pick-up trucks. Others take the form of motorcycles,
cars, buses, aircraft and boats.
Ambulances are also used for other non-critical purposes like transfers between the hospitals,
organ or blood transfer etc. but nonetheless it involves a significant amount of importance on
comparison with the other conventional vehicles. For such important vehicle, safety and to reach

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the location of patient or accident quickly is the most important thing. For this purpose, we are
developing an android based application in which the user will be able to locate the nearest
ambulance and track the ambulance’s live location. The application will provide connectivity to
the administrator, user and ambulance driver. It will be a GPS based application that will allow
the user to find the nearest ambulance, track the assigned vehicle and provide the users exact
location as well. This application will save a significant amount of time in reaching the patients
in need by directing the ambulance in the shortest possible route, then the conventional way
where there will be huge traffic and the driver of the ambulance does not know where the exact
location is.

This system will help the common people in day to day life as there are many accidents on the
road, patients suffering from cardiac arrest, etc. This system aims at providing a better
ambulance facility to the patients by providing faster medical services and help save lives.

Fig I. System Architecture

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 3. Methodology:
The Platform which will be used for the development for Mobile phone application is Android
Studio.
Location services will be provided to the user through Global Positioning System. A server will
be set and data will be stored in the database manually. Information will be managed by using
administratively controlled web portal. Which the user will access through their mobile phone
applications.

4. Technical Requirement:
For the development of this application we require a system consisting of Windows 10 with 64
bit (x64), and an android phone on which our application will run on in the test phase. We will
also require an interface of Visual Studio. The coding of the application will be achieved using
Java language in Android Studio, along with an integration of Firebase. A GPS system will be
used for location tracking on the app. The application will require an internet connection in order
to run.

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 5. Scope:
This application is about helping the users in knowing the routes, drivers and current location of
the ambulance which are near to the incident spot. It takes the help of the GPS system of the
device and pinpoints the exact location of the ambulance on an incident spot. The application
further makes it easy for the users to reach hospital by choosing the appropriate nearest
ambulance. In online mode live updates regarding the location of ambulances is also provided.
The first objective of this project is to minimize the waiting time of end users and reduces
ambiguity for finding location of spot for drivers. Data about the ambulance and drivers will be
loaned by the hospital.
All the routes and stops regarding to the specific ambulance will be saved on the server against
their specific id in a database. The ambulance can be found by giving the specific destination.
There is also a feature of online status so that not only ambulance, other vehicles can also act as
host and drop patient to the hospital

6. Learning Outcomes:
With the development of this application students will be able to learn the following:
 Understanding of how different components of a system of a system relate with each
other
 Application development using Android Studio
 Integration of GPS with the Android application
 Better understanding of development tools like Firebase
 Hands-on experience with real-time information tracking

7. Literature review:

risk of developing work-related health

problems. This article systematically
explores the literature

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on health problems and work-related
and individual health predictors in the
ambulance services.
Methods: We identified the relevant
empirical literature by searching several
electronic databases
including Medline, EMBASE,
PsychINFO, CINAHL, and ISI Web of
Science. Other relevant sources
were identified through reference lists
and other relevant studies known by the
research group
Researchers have become increasingly
aware that ambulance personnel may be
at
risk of developing work-related health
problems. This article systematically
explores the literature

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on health problems and work-related
and individual health predictors in the
ambulance services.
Methods: We identified the relevant
empirical literature by searching several
electronic databases
including Medline, EMBASE,
PsychINFO, CINAHL, and ISI Web of
Science. Other relevant sources
were identified through reference lists
and other relevant studies known by the
research group
Researchers have become increasingly
aware that ambulance personnel may be
at
risk of developing work-related health
problems. This article systematically
explores the literature
on health problems and work-rela
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Location based applications [android, IOS, windows have been developed]. These applications
let the user to know where they are currently located, and the location is sent to the required
person. In this application IOT have been used. Also, GPS tracking system is used that provide
the tracking for the user convenience.
This paper describes the fact that need of IOT is important now a day. In today’s time diseases
are spreading at a rapid growth especially in densely populated regions. To address this issue, the
need of ambulance system is required.
The research show 94.9% patients in Pakistan arrives via ambulance but there are no global
standards for appropriate utilization rate for ambulance. Improving efficiency in healthcare
sector is one of the difficult and most challenging jobs.so our application will basically include
various aspects such as getting ambulance within minimum amount of time, providing proper
treatment to the patient so that the chance of surviving increases in critical condition as road
accidents in the city have been increased and to bar the loss of life due to the accidents is even
more crucial. In 2018, out of 978 patients only 30.9% patients reached the emergency room
within an hour but 20% of emergency patients’ deaths were caused by ambulance delay.
In this application IOT has been used as (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices,
mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique
identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or
human-to-computer interaction. Organization uses GPS tracking system.
Also, in this application the user will be able to track the location of the dispatched ambulance on
their smartphones with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Google maps APIs on
this application. Many organizations use GPS tracking system. A GPS tracking system uses the
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network. This network incorporates a range of
satellites that use microwave signals that are transmitted to GPS devices to give information on
location, vehicle speed, time and direction. So, a GPS tracking system can potentially give both
real- time and historic navigation data on any kind of journey. GPS provides special satellite
signals, which are processed by a receiver. These GPS receivers not only track the exact location
but can also compute velocity and time.
It purposes the use of various APIs can help to communicate between the server and client end.
APIs are designed in such a way that time complexity will be minimized extensively. This is

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achieved by exchanging only the required data with server in order to minimize the traffic and
loss of data packets in the process of transaction.
The research shows that the positions can even be computed in three- dimensional views with the
help of four GPS satellite signals. The Space Segment of the Global Positioning System consists
of 27 Earth- orbiting GPS satellites. There are 24 operational and 3 extra (in case one fails)
satellites that move round the Earth each 12 hours and send radio signals from space that are
received by the GPS receiver. This paper purposes how it will be efficient of using such system
without delaying the fact and arriving on time at patient’s location as the location will be
triggered and help to reach on exact location on time. IoT and smart devices helps in building a
platform which serves every smart device user with such data that will be collected through an
application and send to a centralized database, where it will get filtered for any irregularities, and
if found any then that person will be informed and if needed an ambulance will be dispatched to
their whereabouts. Basically, User can see the location of dispatched ambulance with the help of
Global Positioning System (GPS) and google maps API on their smartphones.

8. Future work:
Currently we will be catering the location and process for one city but later we will add different
categories like:
 Peer to peer network connection
 Catering more than one city
 Adding feedback features

9. References:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance
2) https://www.skyfilabs.com/project-ideas/gps-ambulance-tracker
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 3) http://www.computerscijournal.org/vol10no1/ambulance-tracking-system-using-restful-
api/
4) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-real-time-GPS-ambulance-vehicle-tracking-
System_fig7_268440430
5) https://www.ijarcce.com/upload/2016/april-16/IJARCCE%20133.pdf

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