International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue IV, April 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705

Smart Medicine Reminder with Smart Watch Using

Arduino Nano
Ranjitha1, Shefali Shetty2, Srilaxmi Upadhyaya3, Teena Lobo4, Prof. Santhosh S Nayak5
1,2,3,4,5
Department of Electronics and Communication, Alva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology, Moodbidri, Karnataka,
India

Abstract: For elderly people, there is a need to design appropriate portion is produced to assist the patients with taking
product and medication is one of the important component appropriate measurements adequately. The fundamental
related to them. Management of medication is very important for preferred standpoint of this framework is that elderly
acute illness and long term conditions. In Aged people, due to individuals can work this framework effortlessly.
physical and mental function decline, they need to take number
of drugs. In such scenario, management of complex medication is
required for avoiding before it seriously affects health. Forget to II. LITREATURE SURVEY
take prescribed medicine is one of the problem, so there are Gomathi et al [1] introduced a paper, the objective of this
several products designed for solving problem, such as electronic
undertaking is to help the patients for the confirmation of
medication reminder device, smart phone reminder applications
and many more. However, it is not possible for all elderly people prescriptions at the ideal time. In this paper the time and drug
to make use of smart phone. This paper proposes a system that names are changed by the patients through the keypad
will help not only elderly people for medication reminder but associated. The rundown of medications must be taken by the
also person who is suffering from Alzheimer disease. Proposed patient at the endorsed time is shown on Character Liquid
system is combination of Smart watch and pillbox which will Crystal Display (LCD) and the time is shown on seven
help user to manage complex medication regimes. Patients need fragment show. So in this manner the status of the patients can
not remember their medicine dosage timings as they can set an be effortlessly observed by the doctors. This is actualized
alarm on their medicine dosage timings. A led is placed in pillbox utilizing Unified Technology Learning Platform. In this
which blinks at particular time to take medicine. The alarm can
framework, Advance Risk Machine (ARM) cortex processor
be set for multiple medicines including time and medicine
description. is utilized which depends on ARM form 7 engineering the
fundamental purpose for utilizing this processor is because of
Keywords: Smart watch, Pill box, Arduino IDE software, GSM elite and power proficiency.
technology
Priyadarshini et al [2] proposed a paper on automatic
I. INTRODUCTION medication reminder, this novel idea provides information to
patients to take the right dosages at right time. It is necessary

I n-taking of genuine estimations at proper time is an

obligatory thing of every patient on the planet. The patients
may incorporate kids, understudies, businessperson and
to the patient to take correct medicines at right quantity and
time. A novel Automatic Medication Reminder (AMR)
system is proposed in the paper. The proposed system is used
matured people. They are constantly occupied with their to give information to patients automatically for taking proper
everyday work. If they would encounter the evil impacts of dosage at accurate time which is mentioned in the prescription
any afflictions or sickness, by then it is critical to take their schedule. All the above details are done with the help of
correct portions gainfully, especially senior individuals. If Master IC, keypad, LCD display. After that the controller is
there should be an occurrence of senior residents, relatives are interfaced with RTC module to track the current time. All the
the person who should help the patients however because of three commands including Number of Tablets, Set time,
their bustling calendar this isn't conceivable. Because of this Current time are displayed with the help of LCD display. LED
distinctive issue emerge, for example, taking unpredictable indications and beep sound will be happened at corresponding
medications because of patient's bustling calendar and medicine (tablet) container boxes. Similarly it can give the
absence of information about the drug. By then it is essential information for noon and night time also. This novel device is
to take the best possible prescriptions for their extraordinary economical, smaller in size, better accuracy and less
prosperity. complexity in operation.
As the expense of the in-home restorative Lavima et al [3] presented a paper in which an embedded
consideration rises, every individual search for a productive system is capable of taking care of the patients from all
contraption to manage their medications fittingly. Despite the aspects. This project gives an experimental idea of patient’s
fact that there are diverse medication remnants it has been health condition and monitor environmental conditions. This
hard to work by elderly individuals. To maintain a strategic system is designed using Zigbee and wireless sensor network
distance from such circumstances brilliant drug leftover

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to monitor and evaluate patient’s health condition. The are used to interact with the pill box in order to perform pill
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) setup used for monitoring remind and confirm functions. The camera is placed on the
smart home consists of fabricated electrical sensing units. inner side of the cover to detect the matrix barcode and the
These are installed at an elderly home to monitor patients medicine bag. A user interface on the surface of the cover is
daily activity in terms of object usage and execute effectively used to provide pill remind and alarm functions. After visiting
process. The electrical sensing units connected to various a doctor and returning home, a patient need only scan the
household appliances in this proposed system implemented a matrix barcode using the camera of the pillbox, and all
health monitoring platform such as temperature heartbeat fall medicine related information will be loaded into the pill box.
occurrence and in addition to these gives an alert message to After the matrix barcode is scanned, the patient places the
caring person or hospitals by using GSM technology. medicine bags in the pill box without dispensing the medicine
in to the cell. This method is suitable for the elderly who do
Sharma et al [4] presented a paper on Medicine Reminder
not have access to the internet as well. To improve medication
Application using Android. This paper focuses on the
safety among the elderly, this paper proposed a smart pill box
development of a mobile application to help to provide an
which remind and confirm functions. The proposed pill box
effective healthcare system. This is an android based
can reduce family member’s responsibility towards ensuring
application in which alarm is used which may be closed by
the correct and timely consumption of medicines.
tapping the close alarm button under the image of the
medicine which is to be taken at that particular time. In this Sonawane et al [7] presented a paper in which a new kind of
Android application named Salburity, whose objective is to device is proposed to make an automatic medicine reminder
remind the patients of their dosage timings through alarm for the health context. In this paper system which reminds
ringing system so that they can be healthy. Through the image medicine through automatic process. The proposed system
popping with the alarm, they may remember which medicine consist of Raspberry Pi Module, GSM Module, Secure Digital
is to be taken. It allows users to set an alarm along with the (SD) Card, RTC, power supply, Ethernet interface for Internet
fields of date and time which allow them to set alarm for access, and smart phone. The proposed system is implemented
multiple medicines at different intervals. Android is Linux- around Raspberry Pi processor. In this system, the user has to
based operating system designed mainly for touch screen set the timer by means of a processor. The proposed system is
mobile devices. The application intakes the input to the very useful for older persons who suffered with chronic
system as a information entered by the patient which includes diseases like Diabetic and also different types of cancer and
date, time and medicine’s image. The output of the system for pregnant women as well. This project can implement using
focuses on “Medication Adherence”. Medication adherence the Raspberry Pi and GSM module. By using this system text
usually refers to whether the patients take their medications message as well as Broadcast message can be sent.
properly. After saving the name of medicine, alarm rings on
its respective time. The application also provides the health III. WORKING
related quotes and the list of doctors along with their names,
their specializations and their contact details.
Pande et al [5] presented a paper on Medicine intake schedule
and reminder. In this paper mobiles are used for
communication using GCM. In GCM the messages are sent as
push notifications. This alarm action sends an emergency
message to the user’s emergency contact which is registered
and family and doctor. To locate the user this message can
contain the location information of user. The smart phones
nowadays provide internet service. This allows doctor to send
the new/modified prescriptions on the patient’s smart phone.
This in turn updates the user’s reminder schedules
automatically. These updated prescriptions will be sent over Fig: Block diagram of smart medicine reminder
the internet using Google’s service known as Google cloud
messaging. This system will provide the accurate information The proposed system is a smart medicine reminder which
of medication timing and quantity to be ingested.In the future consists of a pill box and smart watch. Pill box consists of
using other applications can be need for better performance four chambers in which the medicines are placed. Arduino
and easier access for the users.OCR will be introduced to scan uno is the microntroller which is used in pill box and smart
the details of medications. It will also focus on more ways for watch. Arduino IDE software is used to write the code. A
achieving medication adherence. buzzer is placed in pillbox which alarms when prescribed
medicine is to be taken. A reed relay is also placed in the pill
Wu et al [6] presented paper on smart pill box .Smart pill box box which indicates when a patient opens the box. A smart
is equipped with a camera and based on the medicine bag watch consists of Oled display which displays the medicine
concept. The matrix bar codes printed on the medicine bags name and time. When a medicine is to be taken from a

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