Blood bank management system

Abstract

“BLOOD” is one of the most essential necessities of our lives. Mostly during accidents or most of the hospitals issues the need for blood is the common problem. In addition to emergency requirements, advances in medicine have increased the need for blood in many ongoing treatments and elective surgeries. This paper presents an android application blood bank management system that enables individuals who want to donate blood to help the needy. It also enables hospitals to send blood request to the donors who were already registered to the system. The system has developed by using java, PHP, and MySQL as a database system to manage and store the data. The Waterfall Methodology, which is the traditional version and the classic approach of a system development life cycle, is used to develop and build the android based blood bank system. The system targets three types of user: the public who wants to donate blood, the hospitals who need blood, and the admin who manage the system. In this application the system has utilized the Google distance API to find the distance between donors that are in favor of donating blood and hospitals. The android application is readily scalable, efficient and adaptable to meet the complex need of blood for the hospitals.