Disaster Management Emergency Responsive Mechanism Using GIS and Networking with Android Technology

Abstract

Emergencies, post disasters which are very crucial in times and require quick actions. In cities and towns where the population is very high and the traffic is a day to day issue, We have come across many incidents where the ambulance got stuck in the traffic and ultimately resulted in the death of the victim. So the basic solution for this problem is to reach the victim’s basic location and his/her state of condition to the emergency service providers as soon as possible and the emergency vehicles such as Ambulances or Fire engines has to reach the victim as quickly as possible. So, some kind of new mechanism has to be developed in order to overcome this problem with the help of technology. This technology has to be common and widely used to reach large mass. The basic technology used by every individual these days is a Smartphone and the internet. On this ground truths an android application named “DIGI SURAKSH” has been developed. This app if installed on an android device will be to able to locate the nearest ambulances and can even send a request to the nearest ambulance. The ambulance driver who also has an android device installed with the driver version of this app gets notified on the request of victim or victim’s attendee and when the request is accepted by driver, a shortest and fastest route to the requested location by the user is displayed on the map in his android device. So, an android app with GIS technology as backbone and making use of android and computer networking serves us the solution. The pieces of technologies that are to be combined together to get the outcome are ArcGIS runtime SDK version 100.1.0, Android Studio 2.3.3 and the Android build tools 26.0.1 which works on the devices with SDK versions 21 and above which means all the post lollipop devices support this application. The database used is NOSQL database, Firebase by Google.