Intelligent and Safe Medication Box In Health IoT Platform for Medication Monitoring System with Timely Remainders
B. Ayshwarya, Rajbabu Velmurugan
Abstract
The progress in IoT health care is considered to be a massive contribution to the elderly people. The elderly people and people who are suffering from chronic diseases need to intake tablets regularly on timely basis. Care takers with their busy daily routine may forget the instructions and time about pills which are prescribed for patient. Also care takers who are dealing increased number of patients may feel hectic to sort the medicine list for corresponding patients at proper time. Earlier many researches have been carried in this area and different pill boxes have been proposed already. The intelligent medication box proposed in this work have specialized features including six sub boxes which helps to organize six different pills, provides timely remainders for the patient or caretaker in an android application like hand-held devices like smartphone. This intelligent medication box contains bio-sensor for monitoring of temperature and heartbeat. Overdosage and improper intake of medicines may lead to serious issues in health of elderly people to avoid mis usage of medicines a simple authentication process either by the care taker or the patient himself is performed. The proposed medication is much safer as it clearly intimates about time, dosage, stock of medicine and sorts out different pills in correct sub boxes during the next fill by caretaker.