Abstract

In-home healthcare services based on the Internet-of-Things (IOT) have great business potential. In this project,\nthe Health-IOT platform based Intelligent Medicine box is proposed and implemented. Owing to people’s busy schedules and\ntheir forgetfulness or loss of memory due to age, many a times they miss their medication dosage meant to be taken at a\nspecific time. Apart from the factor of forgetfulness, sometimes the patients (specifically in the case of elderly and blind\npeople) are unable to read the names written on the medicine packets which may lead to intake of wrong medicines. These\nfactors lead to medication non-adherence which may result in negative consequences for the patient. This is a critical problem\nfor Medical Researchers as it hampers treatment success. This project proposes the design of an automated system which\nreminds people of their medication schedule and can also take the required medicine at a specific time. This project also\nprovides mechanism to determine the condition of the elderly patients by sensing the one or more vital parameters using\nsensors such as heart beat sensor and temperature sensor. In the developed system, the time at which patient has taken\nmedicine and the vital parameters readings of the patient measured through sensors can be monitored from the hospital\nmanagement i.e. from clinical professionals by accessing the database of the patient in the hospital website.