MedAssist: Automated Medication Kit

Owing to people's busy schedule and their forgetfulness or age-related loss of memory, many a times they miss their medication dosage meant to be taken at a specific time. Apart from forgetfulness, sometimes the patients (specifically in the case of elderly and blind patients) are unable to read the names written on the medicine packets which may lead to intake of wrong medicines. These factors lead to medication non-adherence, resulting in negative consequences for the patient. This is a critical problem for medical researchers as it hampers treatment success [1]. This paper proposes the design of an automated system which reminds people (majorly the elderly people living in the rural areas) of their medication schedule and also bypasses the need to memorize medicine details and its intake schedule.