COMMAND BASED SMART CONTROL OF THE AMBULANCE SYSTEM

International Journal of Research in Advanced Technology - IJORAT

Vol. 1, Issue 2, OCTOBER 2015

All Rights Reserved © 2015 IJORAT

COMMAND BASED SMART CONTROL

OF THE AMBULANCE SYSTEM 1Andrew Rayan.T and

2Beslin Pajila.P.J

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Francis Xavier Engineering College,Tirunelveli, India1

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, SCAD Engineering College,Tirunelveli, India2

Abstract - This paper proposes with an idea for improving safety and security by

preventing the misuse of ambulance. The misuse of ambulance is prevented by

attaching an android based device or a GPS system in the ambulance. This system helps

in tracking the location of ambulance and to control the mode of ambulance

(Emergency/Normal).The task for the ambulance is assigned from control room /

Authenticated person alone. On time of work assignment the authenticated person from

control room will assign work to a specific ambulance nearer to the accident spot. The

ambulance is assigned with the start and the destination location along with the mode

(Emergency/Normal) so the ambulance can only travel through the specified route. The

ambulance can reach the peak speed if it is in emergency mode. When the ambulance

reaches the destination (Nearest Hospital) it will be automatically switched to normal

mode. And when the ambulance is in normal mode it should not travel above a

threshold speed. Using the GPS system the control room can track the location of the

ambulance with which the all the ambulance will be under the control. The Emergency

mode and the Normal mode will be set by the admin. Based on it the vehicles speed

threshold will be adjusted.

Keyword: GPS- Global Positioning System

I. INTRODUCTION

The aim of system is to create a control

system, which monitor all the ambulance

in a particular area. The control room will

assign a task to a specific ambulance

which is close to the accident zone. This

control room managed by an admin will

allot the start and destination location

along with a mode, either Emergency or

Normal. The control room is also

responsible for allocating the route for

travel. In Emergency mode the ambulance

is allowed to travel at a speed above the

threshold speed and at normal mode the

ambulance is allowed to travel below a

threshold speed. For monitoring the

location of travel by the ambulance a GPS

device is attached to it. This GPS device

will keep on updating the latitude and

longitude position of the moving vehicle.

The updated location will be saved in the

server along with the date and time. Now

with the help of the latitude and longitude

positions the admin can monitor the

location of the vehicles along with it speed

and route through which it travels with the

help of web browser or an android device.

The GPS device can be either GPS or a

GPS enabled smart phone. Fig 1 shows the

simple architecture of the system.




Fig 1.1 System Architecture

II. RELATED WORKS

In previous research papers, they deal with

finding the location of the vehicles as well

as finding the route through which the

vehicle travels.This is done by the GPS

device that is fixed in the vehicle.

In 2011, Mohammad A. Al-Khedherthe

[1] published a paper called Hybrid GPS-

GSM Localization of Automobile

Tracking System through which the GPS

device in the vehicle retrieves the location

information from satellites in the form of

latitude and longitude location. The Then

an SMS is sent which contains the position

and then the location is viewed in map in

the desktop or the laptop.The other system

may track the location along with the

moving location but will never give

information about the speed as well as the

pre-defined route through which it has to

pass.

Fig2.1 GSM Localization of Automobile

Tracking System

In 2011, Mohammad A. Al-Khedherthe

[1] published a paper called Hybrid GPS-

GSM Localization of Automobile

Tracking System through which the GPS

device in the vehicle retrieve the location

information from satellites in the form of

latitude and longitude location.The Then

an SMS is sent which contains the position

and then the location is viewed in map in

the desktop or the laptop.The other system

may track the location along with the

moving location but will never give

information about the speed as well as the

pre-defined route through which it has to

pass.

In 2012, Mrs. K.P.Kamble[2] published a

paper called SMART VEHICLE

TRACKING SYSTEM which came up

with the idea of continues tracking of

vehicles location along with the speed.

These coordinates are generally observed

on a computer screen and by using

mapping software through which one can

see the exact position of our vehicle. This




idea is user can access the information of a

vehicle based on vehicle’s position, speed

and distance traveled and duration of each

stoppage with a central operating center by

entering the mobile number of user

through mobile phones or websites using

SMS or Internet.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

In proposed system we have

provided historic information about route

travelled by using a web based database

storage. It will be specially implemented

for tracking ambulance information like

what is the condition of it now, Where is it

now, Where it is moving.

This paper proposes the idea for

the ambulance to improving safety and

security by preventing the misuse of

ambulance. The misuse of ambulance is

prevented by attaching an android based

device inside the ambulance. This device

will help in tracking the location of

ambulance and to control the mode of

ambulance (Emergency/Normal).

The task for ambulance is assigned

by the control room by the admin who

views and manages the system.

Ambulance agency cannot take work

directly. On time of work assignment the

admin from control room will assign work

to a specified ambulance nearer to the

accident location. The admin assigns the

task to the ambulance which is nearer to

the accident spot. He also assigns the

starting and the destination for the

ambulance along with the mode of travel

either Emergency or Normal. Once the

mode is assigned for the ambulance it is

allowed to travel at the specified speed.

When the ambulance is in Emergency

mode it can reach above the threshold

speed. If it is in normal mode then the

ambulance is not allowed to exceed the

threshold speed. Here all the nodes will

communicate with each other using

internet. All the information is transferred

through a web server hence it will be

saved as record each time. Hence it will be

used for investigation in future.

IV. IMPLEMENTATION

The idea is achieved by GPS enabled

android device which acts as the medium

for communication between the ambulance

and the admin. The device keeps on

updating the location of the ambulance

using the GPS in the android device. Once

the location is found by the android device

it calls the php script to execute. The php

script will in return save the latitude and

the longitude position along with the date

and time it has calculated using the GPS

satellite. This data can then be viewed by

the admin using the web browser.

Fig 4.1 Working principle

The admin, to control the ambulance uses

the command to set the mode as well

assign the task. This is done by admin

using the web browser and executing the

php script to save the data in the server.

The android device in the ambulance will

in return retrieve the commands from the




server and sets the mode in its device. The

android device will then set the

microcontroller that directly controls the

speed of the ambulance. This

microcontroller will set the command

either to emergency or to normal mode.

Based on the command send by the

controller the ambulance speed will be set.

Every actions will be monitored by the

admin. Fig 4.1 shows the working

principle of the system.

V. EXPERIMENTAL

RESULTS

Fig 4.2 Tracking of vehicle in admin

side.

Fig 4.2 shows the location by means of

latitude and longitude along with the

address where it is located and the mode

for travel. The map shows the exact

position in which it is travelling with the

help of the latitude and longitude position.

Web browser uses the google maps

application to locate the location.

VI. CONCLUSION

Thus from the above experiment it is

very easy to monitor the location of the

ambulance along with the exact

location and the speed of travel which

is calculated from distance traveled

and the time for travel. This help is

secured use of ambulance and misuse

of it.

REFERENCES

[1] Mrs.K.P.Kamble,”Smart Vehicle

Tracking System”, International Journal

of Distributed and Parallel Systems

(IJDPS) Vol.3, No.4, July 2012

[2] Mohammad A. Al-Khedher”,

Hybrid GPS-GSM Localization of

Automobile Tracking System”,

International Journal of Computer

Science & Information Technology

(IJCSIT) Vol 3, No 6, Dec 2011

[3] Matijevics Istvan , Simon Janos ,

"Comparison of various wireless sensor

networks and their implementation ",

Proceedings of the Conference SIP 2009,

pp 1-3, Pecs, Hungary, 2009

[4] Gyula Mester, "Improving the

Mobile Robot Control in Unknown

Environments", Proceedings of the

YuINFO 2007, pp. 1-4, Kopaonik, Serbia,

2007.

[5] C. Stauffer and W. E. L. Grimson,

―Adaptive background mixture models

for real-time tracking,‖ in Proc. IEEE

CVPR, 1999, pp. 246–252.4.




[6] H. Maaref and C. Barret, "Sensor-

based navigation of a mobile robot in an

indoor environment", in Robotics and

Autonomous Systems, Volume 38, Issue 1,

31 January 2002, pp. 1-18

[7] J. Y. Hao, H. Shen, C. Li, Z.

Xiong, and E. Hussain, ―Vehicle

behaviour understanding based on

movement string,‖ in Proc. 12th Int. IEEE

Conf.Intell. Transp. Syst., 2009, pp. 243–

248.

COMMAND BASED SMART CONTROL OF THE AMBULANCE SYSTEM

Documents

Transcript of COMMAND BASED SMART CONTROL OF THE AMBULANCE SYSTEM