Implementation of an Android-Based Disaster Management System

The Philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world and it lacks an efficient disaster management system that will help in times of need especially during the rescue and relief phase. For this reason, there is a need for a system that will help in the efficient provision of rescue and relief to the disaster-affected areas. Since the use of mobile phones in the Philippines is widespread, the disaster management system was implemented as a mobile application and the application environment used was Google's Android. The disaster management system Android application known as MyDisasterDroid determines the optimum route along different geographical locations that the volunteers and rescuers need to take in order to serve the most number of people and provide maximum coverage of the area in the shortest possible time. Geographic locations can be entered either through the MyDisasterDroid application or via SMS and to determine the most optimum route, genetic algorithm was applied.