Android Based Accident Guider for Insurance Involvers
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2013
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
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.
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Computer Science, Technology, Science and Technology, Insurance, System