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A Geo-Location based Mobile Service that Dynamically Locates and Notifies the nearest Blood Donors for Blood Donation during Medical Emergencies

by Saurin Parikh, Preeti Kathiria, Yashesh Vaghela, Harit Shah, Darshan Dholakiya and
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 88 - Number 3
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Saurin Parikh, Preeti Kathiria, Yashesh Vaghela, Harit Shah, Darshan Dholakiya and
10.5120/15335-3669

Saurin Parikh, Preeti Kathiria, Yashesh Vaghela, Harit Shah, Darshan Dholakiya and . A Geo-Location based Mobile Service that Dynamically Locates and Notifies the nearest Blood Donors for Blood Donation during Medical Emergencies. International Journal of Computer Applications. 88, 3 ( February 2014), 33-39. DOI=10.5120/15335-3669

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author = { Saurin Parikh, Preeti Kathiria, Yashesh Vaghela, Harit Shah, Darshan Dholakiya and },
title = { A Geo-Location based Mobile Service that Dynamically Locates and Notifies the nearest Blood Donors for Blood Donation during Medical Emergencies },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2014 },
volume = { 88 },
number = { 3 },
month = { February },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 33-39 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume88/number3/15335-3669/ },
doi = { 10.5120/15335-3669 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Darshan Dholakiya and
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Medical emergencies arise at any time or anywhere. During medical emergencies blood transfusion may be required to treat patients. The hospitals and clinics especially in Indian rural areas find it difficult to obtain blood instantaneously, especially of negative or rare blood group types [1]. The problem is more severe, when life is lost due to unavailability of blood supply. To solve this, several solutions have been proposed by various Authors; wherein the blood donor's static contact details is maintained by several agencies or blood banks [2]. However these solutions' were not adequate, as it provides list of donors based on the static contact location of the donors, as provided during registration. Whereas in real scenario, the actual location of the donor could be far away from the patient's site. This paper has proposed a system for dynamically locating and notifying the nearest donors for blood requirement. The system tracks the location of donors (volunteers) through GPS or Mobile Network Location and allows requestor to search nearest donors based on their actual location at the time of need. This proposed solution provides a reliable method of locating Blood donors especially in distant rural areas, where few blood banks are available.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Mobile Application to locate nearest Blood Donors GPS based tracking of Blood Donors' Geo-location Android based solution to find nearby Blood Donors and SMS based Help Confirmation.