Raut Vaibhavi G.et al.; International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology © 2019, www.IJARIIT.com All Rights Reserved Page |81 ISSN: 2454-132X Impact factor: 4.295 (Volume 5, Issue 3) Available online at: www.ijariit.com MediSmart: Better health with IoT based med box Vaibhavi G. Raut vaibhaviraut97@gmail.com Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra Tanaya Patil tanayaspatil16@gmail.com Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra Praparna Moharana pramoh1996@gmail.com Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra Shantanu Ghanekar shantanu.mg@gmail.com Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra Swati A. Joshi swatijoshi@gmail.com Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra ABSTRACT Multiple surveys indicate that about 65% of Adults are elderly people and are suffering from chronic diseases like diabetes, cholesterol, arthritis, osteoporosis, dementia, blindness, Alzheimer and so on. Also, the youngsters have fallen prey to the busy and hectic lifestyle. This busy lifestyle has made them forget to take their medicines on time, which is essential for their healthy recovery from their diseases. MediSmart proposes a solution to this distress. It is a smart, IoT based medicine or pillbox that reminds its patient to take their medicines on time with some additional features. Keywords— Healthcare, Medicine box, Arduino, Wi-Fi, Alert system (or medicine reminder), Android app, SOS button 1. INTRODUCTION Wouldn’t it be good if we could carry a medicine box with us that would remind us to take our medicine? Not only is MediSmart, helpful to the elderly people, who are prey to old age and various diseases, but also to the youngsters who are being reckless with the matter of their health by not taking their medicines on time and thus not recovering completely. Surveys and many research studies have indicated towards adults who are elderly people and are suffering from chronic diseases but also the youngsters who have fallen prey to the busy and hectic lifestyle. This busy lifestyle has made them forget to take their medicines on time, which is essential for their healthy recovery from their diseases. MediSmart proposes a solution to this distress. It is a smart, IoT based medicine or pillbox that reminds its patient, with alert systems, to take their medicines on time some other additional features. MediSmart is a special Med Box that also helps patients with visually handicap, like blind or ocular impaired and even partially deaf people. It uses both visual and audio aids to guide the patients. It also uses an LCD display to indicate the name of the prescribed tablets to be taken. Taking medicines is one of the important aspects for maintaining good health and thus MediSmart also provides a feature that notifies the patient via the app that the medicine box is empty and needs to be refilled so that they can take their medicines on time without any delay. MediSmart is a user-friendly medicine box that fosters not only good health but also the security of the patient. It provides an SOS button that would immediately send an alert message or call to notify their respective doctors or caretakers, in case of any emergencies. MediSmart: Better health with IoT based Med Box, as the motto says MediSmart wants the patient to not only be healthy but also safe. 2. LITERATURE SURVEY 2.1 Related work Multiple kind of research, have been conducted in the field of Internet of Things and its applications. One of them is the smart medicine box. As the name suggests, it is fundamentally a medicine box that is equipped with smart functionalities to make the task of the user easier and to assist the user in any way possible, in context of medication intake. Many research papers have proposed various solutions to this innovative idea. Matrix bar code technique, as used in [1] where the matrix bar code is printed on the medicine bag provided by the hospital. This matrix bar code includes the patient name, patient identification (ID), hospital identification (ID), medicine name, medicine ID, medication time, and other related information about the medicine bag [1]. It needs to be scanned through a camera secured inside the medicine box which confirms the intake of the medicine by the patient. The patient is reminded by an alarm system where the buzzer sets off at the scheduled time and the patient then needs to take the medicine bag out of the box and scan the matrix bar code to confirm that they have taken the medicine. If the patient does not take the medicine, the pillbox will remind it later again and using the user interface it guides the patient to take the right medicine [1].