Android Based Accident Guider for Insurance Involvers

Abstract

Human beings are subject to encounter many consequences according to socio economic, political, cultural changes which affect their lives. Every human being is in need of security and care throughout the lifetime in order to accomplish their life goals. Hence, currently insurance plays a major role in recovering the discomforting situations in which humans are affected. There are several types of insurance policies which have been introduced for general public. In terms of insurance policy industry, vehicle insurance is one of the very important areas to manage accidental situations. In current scenario, when an accident occurs, people tend to call the nearest insurance agent, emergency places and garages as well. If the person is not aware of the exact location, he is unable to proceed with the relevant activities. After calling, insurance officer comes to the spot and collects the information manually. Policy holder enters accident details filling a form and hands over it to agent. However, policy holder cannot demonstrate visual representation of accident to the agent if he is far away. Moreover, policy holder encounters difficulties in ascertaining the nearest places, agent, and those contact details and as well filling the incident form. Therefore, mobile applications can be identified as more effective and user friendly in many situations as such and further we can make different applications for different users. Thus, this research was conducted to develop Android, Web and GPS based system to solve these kinds of problems. Policy holders, agents and insurance officers are connected by proposed system. The system facilitates to recognize current location, the nearest wanted places, policy alert, and creation of visual claim report in an accidental situation.

Methodology

Considering the requirements of introducing web based system to facilitate accidental situations, web applications, insurance applications, android applications and current vehicle insurance procedures were studied. Then the project proposal was developed for IT driven solution. Further, diagrams were designed, such as system architecture, flow charts and activity diagrams to clarify the requirements. Database was normalized and ER diagram was drawn. The databases and tables were created by using PHP MyAdmin and web interface was designed by using HTML, CSS and JQuery. Moreover, web application was created by using the technologies such as PHP, MySQL ,JQuery, JavaScript, Ajax and JSON. Android application interface was created by using xml. Android logical control was done by java in android and eclipse platform. The identification of current location was done through GPS and Google map API was used to access map. Data were retrieved from MySQL by Android through JSON and PHP. The system was tested by using several test cases and evaluated by collecting user evaluation comments. System was tested separately as two modules, Android and Web. Finally, integrating the whole system testing and demonstration were completed.