Personal emergency notification application design for mobile devices

Author

Sih-Ting Zeng ; Ching-Min Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., I-Shou Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In most recent years, many interesting applications for mobile devices are designed to improve our living quality and deal with house care issues under Android framework. In this paper, an emergency notification application for mobile devices will be designed using a Freeware, named APP Inventor. In the application, the position function of GPS and an easy used interface capable for sending emergency notification messages or phone calls are included.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; emergency management; emergency services; mobile computing; personal computing; public domain software; smart phones; APP Inventor; Android framework; Freeware; GPS position function; emergency notification messages; house care issues; living quality improvement; mobile devices; personal emergency notification application design; personal safety; personal security; phone calls; Browsers; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Global Positioning System; Programming; Smart phones; APP Inventor; GPS; emergency notification application;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kwei-Shan

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISNE.2014.6839378

Filename

6839378