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Friday, December 20, 2013

Characterizing the Security Implications of Third-Party Emergency Alert Systems over Cellular Text Messaging Services



Objective:
`The main objective of this paper is to reduce the time required to report an accident and to determine its location more precisely.

Abstract:
            Cellular text messaging services are increasingly being relied upon to disseminate critical information during emergencies. Accordingly, a wide range of organizations including colleges and universities now partner with third-party providers that promise to improve physical security by rapidly delivering such messages. In recent days accident happens very common due to heavy traffic and increase in vehicle level and bad drivers, hence it requires a software to inform the service center for instant help to save life of the people.
                  The  Most of the  people  are  stressed  out and  overstrained  after  accidents  even if  no  one  is hurt. Consequently, they  may  face  some  difficulty  in reporting  the  accident  to  the  police  and  civil  defense, or  they  may provide  them  with  inaccurate  information  about  the  location  of  the accident.
                   Recently, the number of accidents of different types (vehicle accidents, fires, etc.) has been increased. Some  of  these  deaths  can  be attributed  to  the  long  response  time  required  to  reach  an  accident. This is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  process  of  determining  the  location  of  an accident  made  by  a  communication  between  a  person  in  the  accident or  a  person  near  the  accident. An  emergency  personnel  as  well  as sending  the  nearest  emergency  service  and/or  police  officers  needed  for  reporting  the  accident  can  be  quite  lengthy.
                    The  persons  in  a  given accident  may  need  an  urgent  treatment  and  the  delay  in  response  time can  increase  the  severity  of  the  accident. Moreover, even  if  they  were able  to  provide  the  necessary  information  it  may  take  them  some time to  deliver  it  to  a human Counterpart. Hence  it  will  take  the  police  and civil  defense  more  time  to  reach  the  accident  location  in  the appropriate  time  to  rescue  people.
                Automatic Crash Detection Systems are those systems that automatically notify emergency centers of vehicle crashes. These systems are commonly equipped with sensors distributed in all directions of the vehicle and used to collect crash severity information. The system then communicates with an emergency dispatcher to assist in determining the appropriate emergency personnel and equipment.
Existing System 
 Too many software’s are used to detect the accident location. People cannot explain the appropriate location type of the accident to the service. The affected person cannot contact the person soon due some technical problems in calling them by a call. The person may not be able to explain about the situation due to mental imbalance caused by the accident, they cannot be directly applied in countries like Jordan because everyone should replace his vehicle by a new vehicle equipped with such a system or install the system in his vehicle, which could be too expensive.
                   Also it is not security to display information about the accident location. It’s very difficult to access by the person who was not aware of technical aspects.
Disadvantages:
  • People cannot explain the appropriate location type of the accident to the service.
  • The affected person cannot contact the person soon due some technical problems in calling them by a call.
  • The person may not be able to explain about the situation due to mental imbalance caused by the accident

Proposed System
   The affected person can just send a message to the service center from their mobile. The message is sent by the affected person is by a software installed in mobile which doesn’t require the user not even to type the message. Then the message will be received by the service center using GSM modem.
                          Using the mobile number and tower location they identify accident location using latitude and longitude. Then they inform the type of the accident and appropriate location to the nearby service (police & fire). This will reduce the time required for the police and the emergency personnel to reach the accident location.
                  The idea will make the location identification automatic using the latitude and longitude hence will be more precise and take less time. Hence  it  will  take  the  police  and civil  defense  more  time  to  reach  the  accident  location  in  the appropriate  time  to  rescue  people.
Advantage:
  •   It is reduce the death during the time of accident since it can inform about the accident faster.
  •   Software requirement is very less, hence it can be easily implemented.
  •   Since there is a no need of conversation in call it reduces the confusion and helpful to the user to report the accident without any tension.
  • Even the affected person can inform about the accident using the proposed system.
  • This system can be easily accessed by any people who were not much aware about the technical aspects.
  •  Can be implemented by all since its costs less.
Hardware Requirements
  •   Main Processor            : >2 GHz
  •   Ram                                : 512
  •   Ports                               : 9 pin Serial Port,
  • Hard Disk                       : 80 GB
  • GSM Modem
  •  Operating System       : Windows XP
  • Android GPRS & GPS enabled mobile phone.
Software Requirements
  • Language           : Java, JSP, Servlet , Android
  • Web Server       : Tomcat
  •  Database           : Mysql 

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