Smart Medicine Kit using Embedded IoT for Visually and Hearing-Impaired Patients

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Sathesh S, Maheswaran S, S.Mahendran, Rega P, Kaviya T, Kaveya P, Kavyadharshini D

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Health is one the most important aspects that can be considered by most of the human beings. Nowadays, Diseases keep on increasing day by day and people keep on taking tablets and certain medications to control those diseases. Missing to take tablet on time causes severe health problems to some of sugar patients etc., but people now a days keep on missing to take tablet on their regular life that causes health problems. Some people alter the tablet by mistake when tablets are mixed in the cover. Many uneducated people as well as visually and hearing impaired patients are not even know which tablet have to take. According to many medical surveys many heart patients are died because of forgetting to take essential tablets. To avoid such ill effects, we have developed a smart device which can act as automated medical assistant to the patient. An alarm with visual indication will be given using buzzers with LED at tablet taking time and the single button will be used for open or close the tablet rack on at that time of the alarm. A rack will be pushed, and that contains tablets to be taken at that time to avoid confusions on altering of the tablets. The medicine kit configuration also done using eight buttons with multiple options like morning, afternoon, evening, night, snooze, emergency open etc., and an immediate action will be taken by sending SMS to guardian with the help GSM module when the patient missed to take tablet. For further clarification how many times patient missed the tablet with date and time will be updated to hospital through IoT for the corresponding patient ID. These details can able to view by the doctor which helps to diagnose the patient. Process of this medicine kit was controlled by using 8-bit Microcontroller.

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