Smart Medicine Reminder with Smart Watch Using Arduino Nano

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

^1,2,3,4,5Department 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 product and medication is one of the important component related to them. Management of medication is very important for acute illness and long term conditions. In Aged people, due to 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 take prescribed medicine is one of the problem, so there are several products designed for solving problem, such as electronic medication reminder device, smart phone reminder applications and many more. However, it is not possible for all elderly people to make use of smart phone. This paper proposes a system that will help not only elderly people for medication reminder but also person who is suffering from Alzheimer disease. Proposed system is combination of Smart watch and pillbox which will help user to manage complex medication regimes. Patients need not remember their medicine dosage timings as they can set an alarm on their medicine dosage timings. A led is placed in pillbox which blinks at particular time to take medicine. The alarm can be set for multiple medicines including time and medicine description.

Keywords: Smart watch, Pill box, Arduino IDE software, GSM technology

I. INTRODUCTION

In-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 matured people. They are constantly occupied with their everyday work. If they would encounter the evil impacts of any afflictions or sickness, by then it is critical to take their correct portions gainfully, especially senior individuals. If there should be an occurrence of senior residents, relatives are the person who should help the patients however because of their bustling calendar this isn’t conceivable. Because of this distinctive issue emerge, for example, taking unpredictable medications because of patient’s bustling calendar and absence of information about the drug. By then it is essential to take the best possible prescriptions for their extraordinary prosperity.

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