Medcare: An Ambulance Routing System

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science department, Helwan University – Cairo, Egypt

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Nowadays’ road traffics are increasing at an incredible rate. This makes the transportation of patients from place to another harder, and makes their life in danger. Our application "Medcare" offers a solution to this problem by using Location detection technologies, such as the global positioning system (GPS), which are included as a standard feature in many new mobile telephones. The main idea of this project “Ambulance routing system” to help the ambulance drivers reach the patients faster, and provides connecting with the patient's family if he's found in a bad situation on his own on the street, we aim to use face recognition to identify patient's 3identity through his profile pictures.
So, our scope will be face recognition, routing and position detection techniques; for Position detection we are going to use ‘location-based services’ (LBS) to be provided with patient's position in ambulance routing situation; the most suitable Routing API will be Google Maps API; and for Face recognition we have noticed by searching that the best algorithm for face detection is HAAR, for feature extraction and face classification phase we use LBP (Local Binary Pattern) technique.

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