IoT based Automated Medicine Dispenser for Online Health Community using Cloud
Suganya G1, Premalatha M2, Anushka Sharma3, Muktak Pandya4, Abhishek Joshi5
1Suganya G, Assistant Professor Sr., Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
2Premalatha M, Assistant Professor Sr., Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
3Anushka Sharma, B.Tech. Students, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
4Muktak Pandya, B.Tech. Students, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
5Abhishek Joshi, B.Tech. Students, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
Manuscript received on 19 February 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 10 March 2019 | Manuscript Published on 08 June 2019 | PP: 759-762 | Volume-7 Issue-5S4, February 2019 | Retrieval Number: E11570275S419/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: Online health communities generally provide a platform for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and suggest support, and connect with other peers in analogous situations. In this paper, an architecture and implementation of an automatic medicine dispenser is proposed to support and extend the online health communities. Through this solution, doctor in the online health community may suggest pills based on the health conditions of their patients as communicated by them through online platform. Each user is secured with a unique barcode while starting the communication between the doctor and the patient. The barcode may then be scanned in the nearby automatic pill dispenser that can dispatch the medicine. Cloud is used as a medium to support Storage as a Service. The proposed model eliminates the need to spend time to visit the doctor and the time to spend in pharmacy. Also, the patients are relieved from the errors that might be caused due to handwriting misinterpretation and change of medicine that exists in manual medicine dispensing system.
Keywords: Medicine, Pills, Automatic Medicine Dispensing, Pharmacy Automation.
Scope of the Article: IoT