Blood Notes: Software System for Promoting and Facilitating Blood Donation

The Blood Notes project aims to subserve and popularize blood donation, respectively to support an effective and permanently extant communication channel between the project’s two target audience. One of the target audience contains persons who are willing to donate blood. For them, the system provides a mobile application for logging and scheduling their donations, for receiving notifications and for accessing useful information related to the blood donation process. The other target audience includes employees working at blood donation centers. Using a web application, they are able to manage the informative data published through the mobile application, and they are able to send notifications about the current blood necessities.The software system has three main components: a central server, a mobile application for donors which is running on iOS and Android platforms, and a web application for the employees of the blood donation centers.The paper presents the functioning and the architecture of the system, listing its features together with the used technologies and development tools.