Design and Implementation of Internet of Things - Based Smart Medicine Box for Patients

Dementia and other disorders often necessitate round-the-clock medical attention and supervision, which are frequently easier to provide in a clinical setting than at home. Also, elderly people frequently fail to take their medications at the prescribed times, resulting in a variety of health issues. On the other hand, an increase in smart systems creates opportunities for using medical therapy at a whole new level. This research study focuses on developing a smart and intelligent medication box for patients, who take medications on a regular basis and whose prescriptions are lengthy and difficult to remember. Based on these observations, a smart medicine box that addresses the challenges by adjusting the time of prescribed medications at various intervals has been designed by using push buttons. The current time will be tracked by the RTC module, and the notification time will be saved in the box's memory. As a result, when a medication is taken, the system generates a notice sound. The developed smart medicine reminder box is further enhanced by using the Arduino as a controller, and ThingSpeak is also interfaced to provide real-time tracking scenarios of a patient even in a remote location. With the proposed model, the patient will be aware of the exact number of boxes from which the medications should be consumed. The proposed system has already preloaded all pill boxes that the patient must take at a certain time.