IoT-driven Smart Packaging for Pharmaceuticals: Ensuring Product Integrity and Patient Safety

In this paper, an IoT-driven smart packaging in the pharmaceutical industry is developed to maintain product integrity and improve patient safety. To monitor essential environmental and handling conditions, the research incorporates several sensors into pharmaceutical packaging, including temperature, humidity, light, tamper detection, gas, GPS, accelerometer, RFID tags, moisture indicator sensors, and shock/vibration sensors. These sensors monitor temperature, humidity, light, tamper detection, and gas. IoT-enabled smart packaging may proactively detect deviations from ideal storage and transportation conditions, decrease risks of product deterioration, and prevent tampering by collecting and analyzing data in real-time. This enables smart packaging to avoid tampering. The deployment of such intelligent packaging technologies can revolutionize medication management, improve patient outcomes by assuring the delivery of effective and legitimate pharmaceuticals, and boost supply chain visibility. This study highlights the opportunities and obstacles of implementing IoT-driven smart packaging in the pharmaceutical business. As a result, the research paves the way for better and safer healthcare practices.