Blood Donor Location Scheduling Application Using Geographic Information System

Abstract

Data on blood donors in the city of Surabaya has improved during normal conditions, when during the COVID-19 pandemic conditions such as experiencing a shortage of blood donors at the Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI) and several hospitals. This condition continued to decline when conditions in the city of Surabaya experienced an increase in confirmed cases of Covid19. The same thing develops with the existence of geographic information system technology and real-time, dynamic and online services for various activities of daily activities ranging from school, work, to shopping for daily needs. This GPS (Geographic Position System) technology will be very easy to use by the public considering that all smartphones currently have embedded GPS technology. Smartphone with the Global Positioning System (GPS) feature is a solution to be able to assist in the process of taking blood donors, as well as the fulfillment of blood stocks in various regions, this can be seen from the number of blood stocks in Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI) on June 2020. The enthusiasm of the community develops when the ease with which technology can be done to meet the needs of life. This application requires development; this is because the development of GPS technology will have more functions.