Medicine Delivering Smart Autonomous Vehicle

This paper is aimed at design and deployment of an Autonomous Vehicle for delivering medicines and other utilities to individual patients in Hospitals. In this paper, we have focused on the aspect of medicine delivery in a particular ward or a room of the hospital assuming that there are four beds in that particular room. The Self driving vehicle works on the mechanism of a line following vehicle. The track is already defined and with an array of Infrared sensors mounted on the base of the vehicle, thus the accuracy of the line following is determined. Medicines are stored in a customized tray which consists of four boxes which open and close automatically using mini servo motors. The medicine inside the box is monitored using an IR sensor attached to the box. The unique identity of every box and the access (opening and closing) of an individual box is given through RFID cards. Every box can be opened only with its respective RFID card where as a Master card can access all boxes. Simultaneously a message is also sent to the Internet of Things based cloud platform regarding successful medicine delivery and intake by the patient. Thus a tracking system is complete for the medicine intake. Hence, the patient is virtually connected with his relatives, doctor, nurse, etc.