IoT-based Automatic Pill Dispenser for Hyperlipidemia’s Patient

Abstract

The elderly who stay at home alone, especially those with hyperlipidemia, would have problems taking their medicine if their medicine is too much with a different variety. The current market product that provides a pill dispensing service is costly with limited functionality; some require a monthly subscription fee and do not have passcode protection for safe use. This work proposed an innovative design of a prototype model of a pill dispenser for the elderly with IoT functionality. This prototype provides tolerance to the most general type of pills and hyperlipidemia-related pills in specific. The prototype employed the integration of hardware and software apparatus. The hardware components include the Durian UNO board, ESP8266 Wi-Fi transceiver module, stepper motor, RFID kit, temperature, humidity sensor, push button, solenoid door lock, buzzer and relay module. The hardware part will support different monitoring systems while sending the data through the Internet for real-time monitoring. Solid Work, Arduino IDE, Blynk Apps and Fritzing software will be utilized for the software. This prototype is intended to provide all the essential features while maintaining the moderate cost of the product. The proposed design can greatly reduce the error of taking the wrong medicine. The caregiver can access the surrounding temperature and humidity of the dispenser. Besides, they can know whether the user has taken the medicine and receive emergency notifications from the user.