The SIJ Transactions on Computer Networks & Communication Engineering (CNCE), Vol. 4, No. 2, October 2016
ISSN: 2321-2403 © 2016 | Published by The Standard International Journals (The SIJ) 19
Abstract—During unforeseen emergencies a mobile solution to fasten easy access to medical or humanitarian
help is the need of the hour. It can provide quick rescue options even in the case where there is disruption to
the communication structure of anywhere a disaster or emergency has taken place. The application users can
reach those medical workers who are in nearest proximity to guarantee that proper aid is provided at the
precise time. The medical personnel are provided with alerts regarding the current location and existing
medical conditions of the victim which include but are not limited to GPS, accelerometer parameters etc., as
well as input from the People in Need (PiN). These abilities can be controlled to maximize the amount of help
provided to the victim in the quickest possible time. This paper describes the design and development
techniques of an m-health application which has been tested for Android platform. Our mobile application will
assist in setting up connections to the humanitarian operators who will aid in providing relief to the people in
an emergency. The efforts to successfully implement this app are based on the contemporary advancement in
advanced wireless technologies.
Keywords—Emergency Management; Mobile Application; SDRS; User-Centric;WiFi-Direct.
Abbreviations—Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE); High Speed Downlink Packet Access
(HSDPA); Smartphone Disaster Recovery System (SDRS); Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs).
I. INTRODUCTION
URING unexpected emergencies or unseen
calamities, rapid damage of the telecommunication
infrastructure can occur. Following any natural or
manmade disaster humanitarian operators play an important
role in the recovery process. The efficiency of this process
depends on accurate knowledge of the location and severity
of the disaster. The speed at which such accurate information
is acquired initiates faster recovery process. The necessary
communications between the humanitarian operators and the
people in need may reach a stagnant stage. In such situation,
the well –organized wireless networks can deliver fast and
short-term remedies to problems in end-to end wireless
connectivity. The vital need of the hour during a disaster or
emergency would be to restore the lost communication links
through infrastructure-less ad-hoc networks. This can be done
through smartphones having advanced capabilities to collect
health related information of the people. These capabilities
can be organized to maximize the amount of rescue work
done in the quickest possible time.The purpose of this paper
is to describe the implementation of an intricate mobile
application through selected modern wireless Wi-Fi Direct
and D2D (Device to Device) technologies. In the following
sections, the reasons that narrowed the choice of the most
suitable networking environment for this kind of application
are stated. After that, the description of the software
environment of the application is presented. This is followed
by the finer details of the application functions. Finally,
evaluation results with regard to the most common
application features are specified, demonstrating their
estimated performance.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
There are a number of prevailing systems that assist in
recovery from a disaster. These systems however largely
depend on inefficient battery consuming services and
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*Student, Department of Information Science and Engineering,PESIT Bangalore South Campus,Bangalore, INDIA.
E-Mail: abhi03.11sharma{at}gmail{dot}com
**Student, Department of Information Science and Engineering,PESIT Bangalore South Campus,Bangalore, INDIA.
E-Mail: sourab_das{at}yahoo{dot}co{dot}in
***Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Engineering, PESIT Bangalore South Campus, Bangalore, INDIA.
E-Mail: deeptic{at}pes{dot}edu
Abhishek Kumar*, Sourab Das** & Deepti C***
A Wi-Fi Direct based Mobile Application
for Early Response to Persons in
Emergency Situations