BDonor: A Blood Donor Management System Using Mobile Crowdsourcing

Abstract

The number of blood donation agencies are limited in developing and developed countries and it is di cult to nd a blood donor of required blood groups. Patients su er a lot and death is occurred in most of the times. Emergency situations such as accidents, ongoing treatments and elective operations create a critical and immediate need for a speci c blood group. In this regard, the easier availability of blood from nearest locations has been given a little attention. In this paper, we present an architecture for and prototype of a blood donation system using crowdsourcing for smartphones whereby anyone at the nearest location can search for their desired blood group. There are currently huge number of people using di erent smartphones of di erent operating systems. The prototype has been built on Android platforms, android Smartphone with built in GPS will be required to able to use the service. If and only if a registered user is willing to donate his/her blood system will send him noti cation of blood donation requests. This system will help users to nd the nearest blood donor. Smartphones collect the exact location information using GPS and send it to the user. Users have to provide their source and destination location for searching the nearest available donor using mobile crowdsourcing. The user can easily detect the donor without wasting any time. The entire system search donor within 5Km radius from the requester location. In future, we will develop our system more congenial with more features. We will implement the system for di erent platform to make the system more friendly.