Welcome to Emergency Assistant project !

This website is maintained to track the development of a mobile application that will assist people of informal economies in case of emergency. This project is being done as a part of the course,CSE594 - Mobile Applications For Informal Economies at Stony Brook University

The Idea

• Simple application that will help even the uneducated people to rely on in case of emergency.
• Proposed design can be found at Functionality 

Team Members

• Guruswamy Namasivayam
• KarthikBalaji Gandhi
• Raadesh Gupta

Weekly updates

•      Week 1 - (7th Oct - 14th Oct)
  • Familiarized ourselves with J2ME.
  • Drafted an initial design for the project.
  • Had few challenges on choosing images for the configuration settings of the application. Can have a open session in class for suggestions
  • We have few screenshot,
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•    Week 2 - (14th Oct - 21th Oct)

  • Worked on our survey topic. Our work will discuss about "Emergency Response Systems on Mobile - Need , Challenges and Opportunities"

  • There are two modes of operation in our mobile application as seen from the screen shot above. We are currently finishing up the operations of emergency mode.

  • Currently we are considering Police, Hospital, Fire as the only emergency services. We welcome suggestions for adding more services.

  • We had to choose a picture that says "Configuration" . We searched and found

  • After configuring the application to run on Emergency Mode with all the emergency numbers we were investigating a bit about initiating a call. We managed to resolve it by refering to an article on Invoking Platform Services in MIDP 2.0

• Week 3 - (21 Oct to 28 Oct)
  • We are writting a class to send, receive SMS.
  • A class to parse the SMS and create an object if the message is in the proper format.
  • A class to format the object into string to send as SMS.

• Week 4 - (28 Oct to 4 Nov)
  • Open Issues in Testing the Module figured.
  • Sending SMS  using the Simulator.
  • Porting it to a Mobile Phone.
• Week 5 & 6 - (5 Nov to 20 Nov)
  • Completed the implementation of all the classes used for sending/receiving SMS.
  • Following factory methods are also implemented
    • DispatcherModeRequestResponseFactory
      • EmergencyRequest
      • EmergencyResponse
      • SearchRequest
        • Questions
      • SearchResponse
        • Answer Categories
  • We have decided to use the zip as a location identifier. Zip code will be used to find nearest dispatcher or nearest emergency response team. This decision was made as using address may not scale well in case of informal economies.
  • We are facing issues on testing the application on mobile phone. We also discussed this in the class but no one seems to have tried that yet.
  • We have completed the survey paper on Emegency Response Systems.

     

     
• Week 7  (21 Nov to 27 Nov)
  • Porting: The jar filed generated can be downloaded to the Mobile phone and executed.
  • Forms for Configuring ,Sending /Receiving Emergency Data is complete.
  • Connectivity between the forms and the record store is pending.