Mobile GIS and Open Source Platform Based on Android: Technology for System Pregnant Women

摘要

The statistic of World Health Organization shows at one year about 287000women died most of them during and following pregnancy and childbirth in Africaand south Asia. This paper suggests system for serving pregnant women usingopen source based on Android technology, the proposed system works based onmobile GIS to select closest care centre or hospital maternity on Google mapfor the pregnant woman, which completed an online registration by sending SMSvia GPRS network (or internet) contains her name and phone number and region(Longitude and Latitude) and other required information the server will savethe information in server database then find the closest care centre and callher for first review at the selected care centre, the proposed system allowedthe pregnant women from her location (home, market, etc) can send a helprequest in emergency cases (via SMS by click one button) contains the ID forthis pregnant woman, and her coordinates (Longitude and Latitude) via GPRSnetwork, then the server will locate the pregnant on Google map and retrievethe pregnant information from the database. This information will be used bythe server to send succoring to pregnant woman at her location and at the sametime notify the nearest hospital and moreover, the server will send SMS over IPto inform her husband and the hospital doctors. Implement and applied thisproposed system of pregnant women shows more effective cost than other systemsbecause it works in economic mode (SMS), and the services of proposed systemare flexible (open source platform) as well as rapidly (mobile GIS based onAndroid) achieved locally registration, succoring in emergency cases, changethe review date of pregnant woman, addition to different types of advisingaccording to pregnancy. Index Terms: Build-in GPS; GPRS; Mobile GIS; SoIP; OpenSource; Google Maps API ; Android Technology