Smart Water Bottle with Pill Alarm for Cognitively Disabled Geriatrics

Abstract

Untimed medicine administration can always show adverse effects on the health of the person. Many hospitals are restructuring by optimizing medical resources towards home healthcare. The proposed work is carried out to help aged people/ patient to take the required medicine in the right proportion and at the right time at home i.e., transforming health care from hospital centric to home centric. With rapidly growing population, it has become extremely difficult to monitor as well as look after the health of older people who find it difficult to remember of their own medical care. The basic idea is to integrate alarm with light based slot sensing on a normal pill boxes integrated with a water bottle. The design is based on a smart and safe medical box that assists patients in taking their pills on time. A smart system is summed up with a mobile application where one can set multiple times for taking medicines without a caretaker. The nodeMCU module is incorporated in developing the system to coordinate the complete processes of alarming and reminding to take pills from the defined boxes that contains the prescribed medicines for the patient. Each box will have its own timing information which will be continuously compared to real world time. Once the information matches with the real time the buzzer starts blowing thereby indicating the patient to take his medicine.