Design and Implementation of Smart Pill Box for Healthcare Applications

The main objective of this research is to facilitate the old people daily life, who suffer from one or more chronic diseases and who have to take dozens of pills a day, by reminding them to take each pill in the time suggested by the doctor. In fact, this paper presents a smart pill box composed of an arduino MEGA 2560R3, a LCD display with I2C module, a DHT22 temperature and humidity and a MQ-4 gas sensors, a buzzer and a wifi module ESP8266. Using the IoT (Internet of Things) technology, the proposed pill box is controlled by a mobile application allowing the remote monitoring of data storage and real-time display for the patient himself and for the doctor who will be able to access to the cloud in order to also display in time if the patient has taken his medicine. Then, the doctor or the patient's relatives are informed by sms or an email when the patient has not taken his treatment.