MedWheels is an innovative mobile application designed to revolutionize emergency medical response systems. With a focus on rapid communication and efficient resource allocation, MedWheels aims to minimize response times during critical situations, potentially saving lives in the process.
- Emergency Alerts: Users can send alerts to nearby hospitals in case of medical emergencies.
- Hospital Response: Hospitals receive alerts and can dispatch ambulances to the emergency location.
- Ambulance Assignment: Hospital administrators can assign available ambulances to patients in need.
- Real-time Tracking: Ambulance drivers can track the location of the patient and navigate to the emergency site using the app.
- Firebase Realtime Database: For dynamic data management and real-time communication between users, hospitals, and ambulances.
- Android: Development platform for creating the mobile application.
- Java: Backend development language for robust functionality.
- XML: Layout design language for creating intuitive user interfaces.
- Google Maps API: Integration for location tracking, route optimization, and real-time navigation.
- Distance Matrix API: Calculates accurate travel times and distances.
- Direction API: Provides real-time navigation instructions.
- Google Maps Integration: Integrating Google Maps API posed challenges, especially in optimizing the Distance Matrix API and Direction API.
- Push Notification Implementation: Ensuring prompt and reliable push notifications to nearby hospitals required innovative solutions.
- Ambulance Assignment: Logistics hurdles were encountered while seamlessly assigning ambulances to patients, necessitating meticulous problem-solving.
- Clone the repository to your local machine.
- Open the project in Android Studio.
- Build and run the application on an Android device or emulator.
We welcome contributions from the community to enhance and improve MedWheels. If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.