Design and Feasibility Analysis of an

Artificial Intelligence Based Mobile App for

Emergency Ambulance
2021 IEEE 11th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) | 978-1-6654-1490-6/21/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/CCWC51732.2021.9375907

Tasfiqul Ghani, Nusrat Jahan, Md. Rasheduzzaman, Yakut Marzan and Mohammad
Monirujjaman Khan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North South University, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]

Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a mobile application named II. RELATED WORKS
EMS BD. EMS BD can be used to find an ambulance at the time of
emergency. In an emergency user just need to press the help button The third world countries have more sufferers and less
and the app will find the nearest driver using artificial intelligence. medical help during an emergency. Usually, people call
This is done with the help of numerous features that are available in ambu- lances which are provided by some of the hospitals.
this application. With the change of differently customized control But when a patient call to the hospital, hospital calls to the
advancement, an online emergency vehicle framework has ended up ambulance driver and search who is free.This system
being progressively indispensable these days. Also, free ambulance takes a lot of time and ambulances are not available
drivers can earn some extra money using the app. This framework is compared to the number of patients.So either they have to
an application-based rescue vehicle framework using a one of a kind use their own transport or hired vehicles.
mobile application, GPS. The framework is significantly less costly
than the standard ambulance, which gives security from various There are few existing software now but none of them
perspectives. The objective of this examination is to manufacture a are for a medical emergency. According to The Guardian,
direct and sensible, yet quicker rescue vehicle benefit. In this paper, three out of four android applications use the third-party
model design, performance analysis, and control of EMS BD are tracker. They track user location to give more specific
elaborately discussed. service. User Locator - GPS Tracker Android app also
Keywords—smartphone; mobile application; technology; artificial tracks consumers but they do not have any option to
intelligence; ambulance contact hospitals they are in danger. They only have a
feature to track users and see their current locations.

I. INTRODUCTION
The project EMS BD features a mobile phone-based system GPS Phone Tracker is another android application
where people in the districts use the mobile app to arrange available in play store to track users but they also do not
transport. As in the third world countries, road infrastructure is not have any feature to provide users an option to increase the
always suitable for fast transportation, it is envisaged to set up faster transport and ask help if they are in an emergency.
assembly points where drivers pick up people in need of medical This is due to the lack of adequate mobile technologies,
attention. After the successful transport to the health facilities, high costs of phone calls and absence of volunteering
drivers get paid through a predetermined payment scheme a activities to promote them. EMS BD mobile application
predetermined fee. The person in need of transport is not affiliated that is proposed in this paper can contribute a lot to these
with the payment itself. people with its easy to use features and little cost of money
with data charges
III. METHODOLOGY

EMS BD is a concept that is purposed to provide convenient A list of precise methodologies has been used to make
and faster ambulance service for people. In the modern world, a EMS BD a reliable and user friendly mobile
good number of people use smart phones. In third world countries, application.We have used the built in GPS of the android
people have smartphones in their hands but they are not aware of phone to get the location of the users.We get the latitude
many technological advancements of it. This paper is focused on and longitude of the user in real time and save them in the
guiding sick people to transport service server and map it in the connected users application. This
. A big challenge for us is to implement these technologies with application is dedicated to Android users only. Numerous
minimum error, maximum efficiency, mass promotion, and tools and necessary expert advises were considered at each
distribution, overall use of mobile technology for the betterment step of this application development.
of patients in crisis. This paper shows ease, basic, successful, and
novel technique for actualizing an extensive variety of emergency A. UI design
vehicle framework for creating nations First of all, a rough UML diagram was drawn.
Gradually adding more ideas and usable features led us to
an idea of a
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fully-fledged application that can be implemented. The next step
was to create the user interface (UI) design and prototype of the
app. Adobe Xd, well-known user experience design software, has
been used for the purpose.

B. Android part
After being glad and assured enough with the designing
section of the EMS BD application, we have a tendency to stepped
towards the main goal of implementing the style. we have a
tendency to started with the Android Studio Integrated
Development atmosphere (IDE)for writing the code .We have
written the back finish code ofthe app in java and for the style of
the app we have a tendency to have used XML that is
extensile Markup Language [6].To connect with server we’ve
used HTTP post and HTTP get ways which connects automaton
with server mistreatment php .After finishing the android half we
have a tendency to tested the code . Java and XML was mainly
used to program the applying

C. Server part
As previously mentioned, this app allows users to take or
upload pictures and videos using their devices camera. We used
PHP programming language for connecting with server. PHP
programming language was further used to program and con- nect
with mySQL database for storing users multimedia. Good
algorithms are used to get servers data into android application
very quickly so that the app become very fast make and make the
application very user friendly.

D. AI part
To find out the shortest path of two users we have used
Dijkstra algorithm[10].First, we take the location of the two users
which are our starting and finishing points. Then we take all the
possible routes using the Google map api [11], along with their
respective traffic conditions, to reach one user from another. The Fig. 1. Homepage of the app
EMS BD application’s AI program considers these routes to give
users the shortest path using Dijkstra’s algorithm.

E. Finalization
After developing EMS BD, we tested this application using
Genymotion Emulator. Crashes or sudden shutdown of the
applications were observed and fixed.After testing in various
virtual emulators we have tested in physical android phones .
V. CONTROLLER DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
IV. MODEL DESIGN
The design is custom and navigation system is excellent As previously mentioned, this Android mobile
Although its a multipurpose app its smooth navigation system application was developed using Android studio. Java and
makes it very easy to use. When user open the app it asks log in PHP were used for programming the application, interface
and sign up its only for first time then user need to provide the key was designed by android XML and database was
of the person he/s wants to track. After providing key later he can developed by SQL. An admin panel has also been created
easily track them. User can track multiple persons, he just need for monitoring the contents shared by users. The admin
add the key. from the navigation drawer user can find his/her key, panel is online and the interface is created using HTML
and they can share that key to his/ her children so that they can and CSS.
connect.

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 Fig. 2. Features of the app Fig. 3. Real time tracking.

backs from the visitors and the university faculty members.

Later upon implementation, validation of this application
was carried out by allowing 50 betas users to continuously
find new problems and errors. After receiving several
reviews from the beta users, the application was also then
presented in many national and international exhibitions.

VII. FEASIBILITY AND COST ANALYSIS

Smart phone performs very smoothly at a constant
speed. As days passed, the developments of smart phones
Fig. 4. Flowchart of Overall Controller Design were not just limited to its performing speed, but there were
also ad- vancements in internal infrastructure to make sure
that people have a great hands-on experience.
A flowchart is given below to show the overall steps followed
to implement the application.
A. Memory management
VI. TESTING
Memory management plays a vital role to ensure the
Prior to the implementation of the application, the proto- type smooth performance of the mobile applications. Thus, the
was demonstrated in a few inter-university projects show- casing major difference between this mobile application and other
exhibitions. We received quite a number of good feed available applications is the internal memory that plays an

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important role in managing the processes, services and ap-
plications which are either installed by the user or which are
already present in the device.
VIII. CONCLUSION
B. Database
The goal of EMS BD is to make sure that at the time
Databases like SQLite are more widely used in embedded of emergency they can get ambulance very fast and this app
system applications. This is important because of its data trans- can save more and more lives. This application has all the
actions structure which allows the data to be more efficiently necessary features that a guardian needs in order to ensure
managed within the phone and the application. safety and take care of their loved ones . To ensure EMS
BDs usage among all age and income groups, it is a very
user- friendly application which comes at a comparatively
C. Different Platform Versions lower cost. This application can further be developed by
allowing its support ability on multiple platforms.
EMS BD works perfectly in all the android versions with little
or no lags at all. As mentioned earlier about its features, users can ACKNOWLEDGMENT
record pictures and videos to send it to their loved ones. They can This application would not have been possible without
record this multimedia directly from the app or on the other the proper guidance of our supervisor. Our sincere gratitude
hand, they can simply upload from the phones storage. Once the to all the people who have given their feed backs to develop
task is done, the users are free to delete them from their phones the user interface of this application. Our deepest love is
which will eventually save phone storage. with our parents and friends who had always believed in us
while we worked on the whole process.

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The most important and unique foundation of our application
is its easy features and comparatively low cost of usage. The
user will just bear the cost of buying data services on their
phones if they are not available to Wi-Fi.

So far, we can say that the feasibility and cost analysis of

EMS BD mobile application can be regulated at ease due to its
user-friendly UI design and low cost of maintenance. The table
below shows the estimated cost analysis of android smart phones
and internet packages from different operators available in
Bangladesh.

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