Volume : 6, Issue : 4, April - 2017

A SMART MEDBOX FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE USING IoT

Kanchi Raghu, Naga Swetha R

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">In elder people as age ascends the capability of remembering things subsides. So that, they won&rsquo;t follow regular medication. The presence of care taker cannot be expected at every time. Health of&nbsp; elders deteriorate.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An IOT application in the health platform is proposed here, which involves LEDs and Buzzer to indicate the variations in medicine slot like counting the number of tablets a patient is consuming, alarms gives alert at set reminder time. A mobile application is used to feed scheduled data or doctors prescription in smart medbox.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>