Accident reporting and guidance system: With automatic detection of the accident

摘要

Mobile phones have been present in our lives for over 20 years during which they have become indispensable. Due to the hardware and software characteristics of the smartphones, these devices are suitable to work as terminals for accident guidance and reporting system. The goal of the paper is to present the design and implementation of such a system, able to give a set of information from the user, information that is associated with a location using a GPS Tracking system and creates an accident report. The system sends the GPS coordinates of the person, display the coordinates on a map and computes the shortest route to the accident site. Also, the system is able to automatic detect an accident when occurs. The paper focuses on the mobile part of the system.