PRESENT-DAY PATENT- A PREVIEW

Anyone in the world is sure to get stuck in the traffic and not pleased to hear the siren of ambulance, racing to save the life of someone’s livelihood!!!  It is a very sad fact that the victim inside the ambulance has to fight against many challenges to survive. First of all, the victim has to face the people’s negligence in clearing out the way for the ambulance. Though this serious issue can be overcome to some extent, the most unexpected one is the time spent on road traffic or railway crossings, which can only be systematically removed. Life waits for none, nor tolerate the delay, causing huge loss to the victim’s family.  So, what can be the solution?  Can all the roads and railways be restructured to provide the ambulances a separate route to the medical assistance regions? However, this sounds highly impractical, necessitating research on managing traffic for the ambulances. Dr. Ruchi Gupta, Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Dr. Arun Pratap Srivastava, Rajakumar B. R and Binu Dennis have put forth an invention to prevent the deaths caused by ambulance delay, caused due to its wait at railway crossings. In their invention, “DATA DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN THE AMBULANCE AND RAILWAY CROSSING DATABASE USING AN INTELLIGENT AMBULANCE GUIDING UNIT", the intelligent ambulance guiding unit is the key feature. The reason is the ability of the guiding unit to direct the ambulance to its destination at the right time, even when the railway crossing is closed and queued up with more vehicles. But, how does this happen? It is because of its connection to the Relational Database Management System (RDMS) that contains the following:

(i)              Information about the status of railway crossing as ‘opened’ or ‘closed’ from the Railway Base Station

(ii)            The real-time traffic congestion data from the Road Side Unit (RSU) and Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET)

(iii)          The information from Geographic Information System (GIS)