Smart pill reminder
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Date
2025
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NHCE
Abstract
Nowadays many elderly people live alone, some with disabilities, who find it difficult to take care of themselves. Most of the elders have a couple of chronic illnesses, and they use capsules to stabilize their health status but old age patients forget to take pills on proper time or as per the prescription which causes certain health issues for patients having permanent diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, breathing problems, heart problems, cancer diseases etc. Taking proper medicine at proper time is necessary to become healthy, but failure of that can create big trouble for a patient. Medical errors are occurred due to the fact that patients and caretakers have to deal with sorting time and dosages.
To overcome this, we propose a smart medicine box for those people who regularly take medicines, and the prescription of their medicine is very long as it is hard to remember. Our medicine box contains three sub pill boxes. Caregiver can set up time for these three sub pill boxes. Pill boxes are pre-loaded in the system which patients need to take at given time which reduces caregiver’s responsibility towards giving the correct and timely consumption of medicines. When time of pill is set, pillbox will remind to take pill at a particular time and the pills required to take at that time comes out to the user to avoid confusion among medicines.
The medicine box has a rectangular shape having three compartments for pill. The DC motor is used for automatic dispensing of the pill. An LCD display is used to display the medicine name and the time at which the medicine to be taken. Microcontroller interface with LCD display, LED, DC motor and speaker are used to provision for visual and audio notifications are to be provided. A vibrator sensor is used to notify the specific box especially for the blind people who can sense it for the intake of medicine at the appropriate time.