A Health Perspective Smartphone Application for the Safety of Road Accident Victims

Abstract

This work presents an android-based application, the SOS (Save Our Souls), a personal safety app that aims to reduce the emergency response time in case of any road casualty. Currently, the increase in the number of road fatalities and injuries requires an advanced system that can intimate for immediate rescue to save precious lives. The use of smartphone’s onboard sensors data for vehicular accident detection and intimation will help in reducing the rescue time. Providing additional geolocation data to the nearest available emergency responder will immensely improve the odds of survival while saving time and resources for emergency services. Using the pre-filled medical details of the user will also help doctors for necessary diagnoses, which in turn will increase the scope of saving lives. This work aims to use today’s cell phones features with three-axis accelerometer data to improve road safety. The developed android application will suggest the nearest hospital with a Google root map. The phone call facility for rescue is enabled with automatic and manual calling facility for informing pre-filled emergency units like police, hospital, family members. This work implemented the android application and verified its working, reducing the rescue time for accident victims.