A Brief Study on Smart Medicine Dispensers

Introduction

Advancements made in the field of smart healthcare technologies have provided people a better life situation in the present years. This would have been even more notable if the percentage of medication errors could be identified and corrected. Due to this negligence, there has been quite a lot of deaths and quite an enormous increase in the expenditures by millions each passing year. In the present-day scenario, since medical devices are incorporated on a network, due to its security issues, interoperability breaches are increasing in number day by day, resulting in enormous business losses. To curb this very risk, automation and consumer-based technologies are being adopted for the medical devices. Health care is at the heart of IOT, with applications varying from health monitorization to disease prognosis. These applications provide the visualisation of identification, diagnostic study, treatment procedures and regular monitoring through the devices that are implanted in IOT. The main achievements are to reduce the cost and easy usage for its users by providing better user experience and easy operational customisation. For seamless connectivity and better performance, a systematic scheduling scheme plays a very important role due to the availability of limited resources. In the healthcare domain, smart devices like a gateway, a server and a database help in creation of data to be sent as medical services to the authorized organisations. In the upcoming years, IOT will play a huge role to address the above issues in the healthcare domain. Through IOT, various countries across the world, have adopted this new turnover in the field of medical health care, by designing and developing new frameworks and applications integrating services and security. The objective is to construct a device that is relatively small and light weight, that is developed as a software in such a way that patients receive their medication reliably and safely as prescribed by their physician. The device also provides alert messages which helps to take medicines in time as well as refilling the medications.