Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Automated Medicine Dispenser

Abstract

This paper presents an automatic medicine dispenser prototype. It is a low-cost IoT-based prototype and it can be used by every type of patient especially for the paralyzed, deaf and blind patients. Often people forget to take medicine at right time due to illiteracy, poor-eyesight, or busyness. As a result, getting well is far away, new disease attacks. The main aim of this study is to enable patients to take their medicine on time. To avoid these circumstances an automated medicine dispenser is proposed. Previous works were not very user-friendly and cost a lot some researchers proposed a system that does not work without the internet and none of them focused on the physically disabled patient. In this proposed work all limitations have been fulfilled. Our proposed device gives many facilities to the patient to take medicine at right time. This system provides a voice alarm. Three different colors LEDs, which mention three times period and notified by E-mail in every 15 minutes until patient take medication. The Patient can also check pulse rate and oxygen level using this device. Biometric security is installed so that only authorized persons can access it. It will store medication information on the server that the patient can see at any time. After using this device patient medication forgotten rate is reduced and the habit of the patient is significantly improved.