NavIC Driven Dynamic Ambulance Allocation and Tracking

Emergency medical services provide urgent prehospital treatment, stabilization for serious illness, injuries and transport to definitive care. Private, public emergency vehicle administrations are working in more numbers today as an unavoidable service serving patients at critical moments. The process of calling, allocating an ambulance is multistep, time-consuming which increases the effective time in which a patient can receive medical aid. The paper discusses the use of NavIC-the Indian navigation technology. The ambulance allocation system uses NavIC tracking units to track ambulances. The unit constantly sends location data to the server and the database. The nearest ambulance having the shortest response time, computed using the distance matrix API is allocated to the user. The driver of the ambulance receives an SMS specifying the user location. The user gets information about the probable arrival time and prediction of the nearest hospital determined by the Haversine formula.