Development of m-Sahayak- the Innovative Android based Application for Real-time Assistance in Indian Agriculture and Health Sectors
Biswajit Saha, Kowsar Ali, Premankur Basak, Amit Chaudhuri · Ubiquitous Computing Systems · 2012
Mobile or Smart phones (Android based) is becoming an essential device for all types of people irrespective of the age group and literacy (literate or illiterate). In India, mobile technology has unleashed a paradigm shift in the communication medium to reach out to the masses. Crops/plants need regular physical and scientific handling for proper growth. Extension of mobile-phone based any-time, any-where scientific expert advices to the farmers is a possibility in India, i.e., information was available earlier for electronic processing, and now, communication is merged with Information Technology to create ICT impacts as a whole. ICT enabled environment is becoming a day-to-day reality everywhere in India. Tele-health allows health care professionals to diagnose and treat patients in remote locations using ICT. In this paper, the development of a special Android-based application is reported. The application takes care of certain problems in agriculture and health care by concurrently capturing images, audio and video and sending them to a specified server. Agricultural Scientists or doctors can view or listen to this images/video/audio information and provide proper solutions, accordingly. The development was tested satisfactorily. The paper will report on system concepts, design details and results.