BDonor: A Geo-localised Blood Donor Management System Using Mobile Crowdsourcing

Abstract

Blood donation is a noble act but during emergency times people rarely find blood donors. 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. We discuss our system features and functionalities. We developed our system with the idea of mobile crowdsourcing. This system will help the blood requester to find the donors of requested blood groups in the nearby location. Location information will send to the system by using GPS in our proposed system. Requesters can search donors from their current or destination location. As we proposed to find more than one donor parallelly and request for more than one blood group, our system will save time and protect from any disappointed. This system search donor within 5km, as a result, finding donors and arriving at the destination will be easier and in the most short time period. In the future, we will implement the user information in the block chain.