e-vaccination:Fingerprint Based Vaccination Monitoring System Vidhya. S Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India s_vidhya@cb.amrita.edu J.Rajivkrishnan Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India cb.en.u4cse14235@cb.students.amrita.edu B.A.Sabarish Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India ba_sabarish@cb.amrita.edu P.Sachin Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India cb.en.u4cse14239@cb.students.amrita.edu Abstract - Immunization against common childhood diseases has been an integral part of mother and child health services in India. In developing countries, current vaccination status ofinfants is recorded ina paper, which is ineffective in many ways:information which may go missing, process of looking up data is tedious. The main objective of proposed work is to use biometric traits (fingerprint) of an infant to store their vaccination schedule details,thereby automating the vaccination schedule for the infant.Biometrics traits are usedsince fingerprint of infants have great potential to accurately record immunizations and helps greatly in efficiently searching the data. The proposed method aims at developing an application which provides to alerts on a regular basis toparents and Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers based on the stored vaccination schedule information. Keywords--Fingerprint biometrics; vaccination monitoring; Primary Health center; infant recognition I. INTRODUCTION Vaccination is the most important public health involvement that requires high routine coverage to reduce Infant mortality rate. Various Immunizationprograms are organized by Government with this aim. Around 1.2 million children died of vaccine preventable disease in India in 2015 before celebrating their fifth birthday, a UNICEF report has said in a grim reminder of atrocious state of child healthcare in the world’s fastest growing major economy. Most of the infant deaths caused by diseases are easily vaccine preventable and treatable. India has been one among the five countries accounting for half the 5.9 million under-five deaths reported all over the world last year[16]. Technology of identification and verification on unique physiological and behavioral characteristics includes following biometric traits fingerprints ,palm geometry, iris, dental root morphology. Commercial applications also started using biometric application in which finger print is widely used. Fingerprint authentication involves identification of unique pattern which is used for recognition. Due to availability of low cost scanners and ease use of fingerprints made it widely used biometric traits. Fingerprint recognition of infants has a limited influence over growth. Current Vaccination System suffers with the following challenges like missing of records (vaccination card), recovery, retrieval, search of vaccination details, priorknowledge on availability of vaccine and number of infants getting benefited is required. Our proposed work will help to recover the data of infants in case of parental death during natural calamities. Orphanages are also one of the important beneficiaries of our proposed work. Collection of fingerprints from infants is a challenge in itself, as infants tends to wiggle around and have a low contrast between ridges and valleys of their small fingerprint patterns. II. LITERATURE SURVEY A child is considered fully vaccinated only if vaccinated with one dose of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and measles vaccine,three doses of pentavalent and oral polio vaccine with the right dosage and boosters at the right age and interval [1]. District-Level Household Survey-4 in Tamil Nadu indicated that only 56 percent of children aged between 12 to International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Volume 118 No. 7 2018, 623-628 ISSN: 1311-8080 (printed version); ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version) url: http://www.ijpam.eu Special Issue ijpam.eu 623