MANAGING THE STATUS OF SUFFERING PILGRIMS IN MAKKAH VIA MOBILE APPLICATION

The gathering of many people for pilgrimage in sacred places has been increasing in recent years worldwide. With the growing number of pilgrims, the difficulties facing the authorities are also expanding in the form of crowd control and accident avoidance. In such a huge gathering of people and the expected resulting stampede, many pilgrims, including young children and old people, get lost and many pilgrims die because of both natural causes and the stampede. This paper proposes a dedicated mobile solution to identify Muslim pilgrims to Makka experiencing such abnormal situations using QR Code with a mobile application called (Hajj ID). Each practicing pilgrim must wear all time an assigned QR Code containing all his/her necessary personal information, which can be retrieved to access the personal and medical information of the pilgrim in an emergency. The QR Code can only be read by authorized personnel using a mobile application specially designed for this purpose and the pilgrim status will change and be saved to the database and shown on the Hajj website.