SmartAmb: An Integrated Platform for Ambulance Routing and Patient Monitoring
Mohamed N. Ashmawy, Ahmed M. Khairy, Mohamed W. Hamdy, Anas El-Shazly, Karim El-Rashidy, Mohamed G. Salah, Ziad Mansour, Ahmed K. F. Khattab · 2019
This paper presents an integrated platform for smart ambulance routing and patient status monitoring during the ride. The main target of the platform is to increase the likelihood of the patient's survival by having the ambulance arriving to the hospital as soon as possible while allowing the responsible doctor to monitor the patient's biomedical data. Hence, the doctor can provide the paramedics riding with the patient with helpful instructions or prepare the needed medical services to be received by the patient upon arrival. Furthermore, the platform applies machine learning techniques on the collected data to help the doctor identify possible medical threats. We adopt a layered approach in the design of the system. A prototype of the integrated system is implemented, and its performance is evaluated.