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A SMART MEDBOX FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE USING

IOT
KANCHI RAGHU 1, NAGASWETHA R 2
1
PG Scholar, Dept of Embedded Systems, ANURAG GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, TS, INDIA
2
Assistant Professor, Embedded Systems, ANURAG GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, TS, INDIA
[email protected]
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ABSTRACT - In elder people as age ascends the capability of remembering things subsides. So that, they
won’t follow regular medication. The presence of care taker cannot be expected at every time. Health of
elders deteriorate.
An IOT application in the health platform is proposed here, which involves LEDs and Buzzer to
indicate the variations in medicine slot like counting the number of tablets a patient is consuming, alarms
gives alert at set reminder set. A mobile application is used to feed scheduled data or doctors prescription in
smart medbox.

Key words – Medbox, Node MCU, buzzer, Reset Button, Mobile App

INTRODUCTION to the medical non-compliance problem. The

Currently, worldwide aging and regularity of innovation skeem to help patient keep trail of their
persistent diseases are flattering a broad concern. medicine consumption through a series LED alarm
Numerous countries are undergoing hospital indicator signal and audio alarm indicator signals.
restructuring by reducing number of hospital beds and
escalating home healthcare, which is envisioned to The main objectives of the project are:
perk up health care quality, has fascinated wide-
 Dispense of medicines from medbox at
ranging attention. In order to track the physical status
scheduled time.
of the elderly and, in the meanwhile, to keep them
 Medical alerts to care taker and retailer
healthy, the proposed idea will be helpful. IoT
expands the Internet into our everyday lives by  Online report generation of medicine
wirelessly connecting various smart objects , and will  Real-time health statistics monitoring of
bring significant hangs in the way we live and interact medicines
with smart devices. The new wave in the era of  Configuration data is send through mobile
computing will be outside the sphere of the app
conventional desktop.
BLOCK DIAGRAM
Internet of Things (IoT) is a network where
many of the objects that surrounds us will be
networked in one form or another. By using this
technology the health statistics of medication are
observed. In this process of encryption the schedule
data or doctor’s prescription are send to medbox
through mobile app. The LEDs are placed for
indication and buzzer for alarm alerts and reset button
is used to count for medicine in cloud platform. The
existing techniques to the market for the reminder
include a medbox. But this does not help in checking
the medicine. This proposed idea is valuable solution Fig 1: Working Principle of Smart Medbox
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INTERNET OF THINGS
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an important
topic in technology industry, policy, and engineering
circles and has become headline news in both the
specialty press and the popular media. This
technology is embodied in a wide spectrum of
networked products, systems, and sensors, which take
advantage of advancements in computing power,
electronics miniaturization, and network
interconnections to offer new capabilities not
previously possible. An abundance of conferences, Fig 2: Medbox with hardware connections
reports, and news articles discuss and debate the
prospective impact of the “IoT revolution”—from The configuration data from Mobile App is
new market opportunities and business models to send to the EEPROM with an IP address and to cloud
concerns about security, privacy, and technical platform. The configuration data checks with the
interoperability. automated time and matching data will respond to the
IoT systems like networked vehicles, glow of LED and buzzer. By resetting the button the
intelligent traffic systems, and sensors embedded in tablet details are uploaded to the cloud platform and
roads and bridges move us closer to the idea of excel sheet is provided to know the consumption
“smart cities’’, which help minimize congestion and detailed number of tablets consumed by a person. If
energy consumption. IoT technology offers the the person or elderly people doesn’t reset button at
possibility to transform agriculture, industry, and schedule time the alert/SMS is send to the user.
energy production and distribution by increasing the
availability of information along the value chain of HARDWARE MODULES
production using networked sensors. However, IoT  Medbox
raises many issues and challenges that need to be  Node MCU
considered and addressed in order for potential  Multiplexer
benefits to be realized.  Reset & Configuarion Switch
 LEDs & Buzzer
PROPOSED METHOD
Node MCU (ESP8266-12E)
To ensure the elderly people consume ESP8266 is an impressive, low cost WiFi
medicines as per schedule time table, here we module suitable for adding WiFi functionality to an
developed a smart Medbox. The schedule existing microcontroller project via a UART serial
data/configuration data is send to the Medbox through connection. The module can even be reprogrammed
Mobile app. The smart Medbox contains Node MCU, to act as a standalone WiFi connected device–just add
multiplexer, LEDs, buzzer,reset button and power! The feature list is impressive and includes:
configuration switch. 802.11 b/g/n protocol Wi-Fi Direct (P2P), soft-AP
The multiplexer are used to connect LED’s Integrated TCP/IP protocol stack.
in Medbox by Node MCU. Node MCU is inbuilt with
wi-fi module. The wi-fi module is configured as
MEDBOXAP, such that the IP address is generated in
local network. By pairing the IP address generated by
MEDBOXAP to the Mobile App. The configuration
data is send to the smart Medbox when the
configuration is in ON mode. The concerned LED
glow with buzzer at schedule time.

Fig 3: ESP8266-12E board Description

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SOFTWARE MODULES ADVANTAGES

 Arduino IDE  Monitoring of health statistics Medicine,
 Android Studio(Mobile App) alarms and medication non-compliance
control.
Arduino IDE
 Emergency and medical management
Ardunio is an open-source prototyping services.
platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software.  Wireless identifiable Embedded healthcare
The Ardunio Integrated Development Environment - systems.
or Ardunio Software (IDE) - contains a text editor for
writing code, a message area, a text console, a toolbar CONCLUSION
with buttons for common functions and a series of Integrating of Hardware modules Node
menus. It connects to the Ardunio and Genuino MCU, ,multiplexer, Buzzer, push Button and Mobile
hardware to upload programs and communicate with application to MedBox and every module has been
them. placed carefully to give resoned output, thus
Android Studio contributing to the best working of the unit. Secondly,
Android is a software platform and operating using highly advanced hardware with the help of
system for mobile devices, based on the Linux kernel, growing technology, the project has been successfully
and developed by Google and later the Open Handset implemented. Thus the project has been successfully
Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code designed and tested.
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Fig 6: Tabular form of medicine count