Medical Box Reminder System for Elder People

Abstract

Though the health care society is slow in adopting IoT (Internet of Things) than other fields, IoT in the field of medicine is destined to keep the people safe and healthy where the main purpose is to decrease the cost of health care in the coming years. A smart IoT based healthcare system has been proposed here, which contains an intelligence medicine box associated with sensors and server for regular health monitoring. This smart medicine box with wireless internet connectivity helps the patients to get regular health care and create easy communication between doctor and patient without meeting physically. The proposed medicine box helps the patient to take the right medicine at the right time which will help the patient to take the medicine. A laptop is used as a server where detailed information about doctor and patient are stored along with prescription and appointment date. Both doctor and patient have IDs and password for accessing the server. Also, the data of medication and temperature of patient are stored on the server for doctors ease. The Doctor can change the patients prescription if necessary, which will also be notified via email. Moreover, the doctor can take immediate steps in case of an emergency.

Existing System

This system talks about an RFID-based application in an assistive environment called “Smart Drawer”, which tracks medicine taking for the elderly. The idea was able to keep an inventory of the medicine that is stored inside it and monitor and record the drug taking activities of the patient. By combining the appropriate hardware and software can create an easy to use system which not only monitor the patients drug taking activities but will alert him in cases where his behavior does not follow the predefined directions. Such a system can either be used as an autonomous tool or be incorporated in a larger Assistive Environment where medication patterns are correlated with other patient conditions monitored.

Proposed System

In this project, the intelligent medicine box will help a patient to remind him/her about his/her medication when it is time to take. For example, if a patient needs to take medicine at 6 a.m. In the morning the box will remind him by making sound and also by sending an alarm. If he forgets the actual time of taking medicine and goes to take medicine at any time the medicine box will not open as a servo motor will make the box locked. While it is the right time to take the medicine then the box will make sound and will give notification until the user takes medicine or open the drawer. To control the smart medicine box, a user needs to input the medical details and when to take them. As there are three compartments so the user can keep 3 types of medicine. according to doctor supervision. In our system, the control algorithm is shown in figure. A real time clock is generated using the RTC module. The medication time or alarm tone is set in the code compiled for this project. If the generated real time clock matches the medication time, then, an alarm will be created, the Buzzer will ring and an email will be sent to patients mobile as notification, the LED light of that compartment will glow, and the medicine name will be displayed on the screen. If the patient doesnt take medicine or misses any notification, then the light of the compartment will glow and name will be displayed on the screen. After taking the medicine from the compartment the LED will off.

Architecture

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