IoT and I2C Protocol Based M-Health Medication Assistive System for Elderly People

Old age people suffering from Alzheimer's disease are not able to carry out their regular medication activities due to decline memory. Taking the correct medicines at regular slots is a challenging task for them. Hence in this research paper, IoT based Medication Assistive System was proposed and developed to facilitate medication adherence. The proposed system incorporates features such as sending a message to a medical practitioner one week ahead to remind the status of medicines and also buzzer beep to ensure the attendance of a candidate which is not available in existing software remainders. It can perform the task even though internet is not available physically by using NodeMCU and Blyank app. The proposed system assists older people in reminding medication timings as well as selection of medicines. It also reduces the dependency of old people on younger generations. Design can be realized at a lower price due to the availability of intelligent programmable hardware at an affordable cost.