Smart Medicine Box for Old Age People

computer engineering

Health care services based on Internet of Things have great potential in medical field. Proper Medication is necessary to become a healthy but failure of that can create big trouble for a patient. This is extremely problematic for the elderly patient who had problem in keeping track of their medicine. So to overcome this we made this Smart Medicine Box which keep tracks of the dosage and duration between each consumption. Poor eyesight as one of the contributors for medicine consumption errors such as misdosage since the elderly finds it troublesome to read the instruction on the medicine case and identifying the right dosage of the medicine along with that memory loss is common in old age due to that decrease in speed of information being retrieved. Hence, this Smart Medicine Box will track their medication and inform patient to take right dosage of right medicine at the right time.

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