An Intelligent Medical Box Remotely Controlled by Doctor

ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Now a day’s, most of the people are encountered with some health-related problems and
they need regular medications. From a survey, about 65% of people forget to take their
medicines at right time. To avoid the medication non-adherence, a system has been proposed
using an IOT Platform, sensors and with the medical box. An IMB model with wireless
connectivity (Wi-Fi module) helps patients and doctors to be in closer communication. The
model which has been developed has an intelligent medical setup that alerts the patients to take
their medications at the right time. At the same time, the Doctor can check the patient’s health
condition using the sensors remotely. The sensors used will continuously monitor the patient's
health. If there is any variation then the doctor varies the number of pills to be taken. In case if
the patient forgets to take the pills even after the alert, then the information of skipped dosages
will be available in the server. The doctor can remotely update the medication details in the IOT
server and timely updates about medicines are available to patients. This project is claimed to be
the best solution for intimating the patient to take medicines regularly and continuous monitoring
of the patient’s health.

EXISTING SYSTEM

A person performs daily activities at regular interval of time. This implies that the person
is mentally and physically fit and leading a regular life. This tells us that the overall well-being
of the person is at a certain standard. If there is decline or change in the regular activity, then the
wellness of the person is not in the normal state. Elderly people desire to lead an independent
lifestyle, but at old age, people become prone to different accidents [, so living alone has high
risks and is recurrent. A growing amount of research is reported in recent times on development
of a system to monitor the activities of an elderly person living alone so that help can be
provided before any unforeseen situation happened.

DISADVANTAGES
1. The systems are bulky and are not portable where in these cannot be carried easily
anywhere, any time.
2. Don’t have proper health checkup.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:
The proposed system is divided into four modules:

● Module 1: Sensing
● Module 2: Transmitting
●Module 3: Processing
● Module 4: Dispensing
SENSING: Sensing part consists of a Temperature sensor and a heartbeat sensor. The patient’s
body temperature and heartbeat are measured using temperature sensor lm35 in which the output
voltage of sensor is linearly proportional to the Celsius temperature while the heartbeat sensor is
used to monitor the patient’s pulse rate. The pulse rate can be measured at any point where an
artery is close to the surface on the body. The heart rate is measured by infrared transmitter and
receiver. The pulse rate sensor has infraredtransmitter and receiver placed in it. When we want to
measure the pulse rate, the pulse rate sensor has to be clipped in the finger. Depending on the
blood flow, the Infrared rays are interrupted. Due to that IR conduction is interrupted and
variable pulse signals are generated. These sensors continuously monitor the patient parameters
and send that information to the microcontroller for further processing.
TRANSMITTING: Transmitting part consist of a microcontroller that consists of one 16 bit and
two 8 bit timer for gathering the details obtained from the sensing unit and send that information
to the IOT server using a WIFI module( ESP8266). The Wi-Fi module is a self contained SOC
with integrated TCP/IP Protocol stack, so it can give any microcontroller access to wifi network.
This module helps the parameters to be uploaded on the IOT server. An LCD is interfaced with
the microcontroller to display the sensor parameters to the patient and intimating the patient to
take medicine from the dispenser.
PROCESSING: The processing module consist of the PC and IOT server. The main purpose of
the system is to move the routine medical checkups and other health care services from hospital
to the home environment. This must be possible when we employ IOT. The IoT(Internet of
things) servers have numerous purposes, like administration, monitoring, data gathering and
analysis. They are open-source enterprise platforms that provide the capabilities, to connect to
devices in the server side of the IoT architecture. It is a sensor network of billions of smart
devices that connect people, other applications and systems to collect and share data. In the
proposed system, the IOT server have the in formations of Temperature , Pulse rate, Medication
details Previous medical reports ,Details of missing doses, Updated details. When the doctor
finds abnormalities, he/she can update the changes in the server in which the variations will be
updated in the pill dispenser through the IOT. Full duplex communication is possible here. These
details can be accessed using a URL through the PC.
DISPENSING: Dispensing part consists of a servomotor, a driver and the dispensing model.
The tablets will be filled in the pill dispenser model and timely medication details will be set.
Based on the details, the servos and the drivers will dispense the medicine at the right time and
intimate the patient to consume it. The pill dispenser model consists of a stack to hold the tablets.
Using the servomotor, the tablets will get dispensed in which the servomotor is controlled by the
motor driver (L298). The proposed system is designed to dispense.
ADVANTAGES:
1. Easy to use.
2. Low Cost.
3. Alerts the patients to take their medications at the right time.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Doctor:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
1. Microcontroller (Arduino/ NodeMCU)
2. RPS
3. GPS

4. Wi-Fi module
5. Heartbeat Sensor
6. Body temperature Sensor
7. Motor driver
8. Servo motor.
9. Buzzer

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
1. Arduino IDE
2. Embedded C