Using IoT technologies to develop a low-cost smart medicine box

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that has provided improvements for the day-to-day of society. This paradigm has been applied in several domains such as ambient assisted living (AAL), energy, transportation, environmental, urban monitoring, and healthcare. In the healthcare domain, IoT offers many advantages, such as enable continuous health monitoring, improve quality life and comfort, among others. A kind of IoT application in this domain is smart medicine box, a device that provides medicines treatment monitoring of users. It allows health professionals to verify users’ treatment compliance and supports decision-making. Most of the smart medicine box projects found in the literature are still expensive and do not address some characteristics of IoT systems such as scalability, latency, time to response, among others. Taking into account this scenario, this work proposes a low-cost IoT system prototype to support users during their medicines manipulation. The proposal employs edge-computing concept to add intermediate layer improving the communication among devices and services.

Enhancing Pharmaceutical Packaging through a Technology Ecosystem to Facilitate the Reuse of Medicines and Reduce Medicinal Waste

“…A similar structure to that discussed above can be found in a smart medicine box which is an emerging research topic integrating digital sensors and networking capability so that they can monitor normal medicines put inside the box. Additional technologies can be applied to the surroundings of the smart medicine box as well for facilitating an electronic reminder for medication adherence [ 101 ], an in-house track and trace system [ 102 ], or an interaction with remote servers for telehealthcare [ 103 , 104 ]. Embedding IoT technologies into pharmaceutical packaging allows normal packages of medicines to become intelligent packaging [ 105 , 106 , 107 ], thus, the requirements for reusing medicines are met where an extension of the real-time information to cloud computing empowers all stakeholders to share data on a single platform.…”

Implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) in Smart Medicine Box for the Elderly

“…Aturan yang benar untuk mengonsumsi obat belum dipahami oleh beberapa orang, misalnya meminum obat yang memiliki aturan 3 kali sehari, itu artinya waktu tepat untuk minum obat adalah 24 / 3 = 8, artinya adalah obat perlu dikonsumsi setiap 8 jam sehari. Jika obat dikonsumsi pertama kali pada pukul 08.00 maka selanjutnya adalah pukul 16.00 dan begitu seterusnya [13]. Kepatuhan untuk meminum obat secara tepat waktu, dan dosis yang tepat adalah hal yang penting, karena kepatuhan meminum obat sangat mempengaruhi kesembuhan seorang pasien [14].…”

The Recent Trends and Essential factors of Blockchain Technology with The Internet of Things: A Literature Review

“…The Internet of Things can be interpreted as a micro controller that regulates sensors connected to the micro controller and sends data obtained from sensors to receivers such as servers or applications connected via the internet [7]. Some things about IoT require development, such as the possibility of a single point of failure [8] and communication failure [9].…”

“…[4][24][28] [35] so BIoT is a solution to communication problems that occur between IoT devices. Another problem found in IoT is communication collapse, which shows the process of sending data [7], but BIoT has Blockchain characteristics, namely distributed so if all communication is connected, all data will be synchronized automatically. Another problem that was found and need more attention is the centralization of data from IoT and also creates a single point of failure, which will affect the trust and privacy of data.…”

“…Research on blockchain technology with IoT (BIoT) has begun to be widely carried out and developed many studies have done this. In its development, IoT research was carried out on smart medicine boxes to monitor user treatment [7]. Research conducted by Yongping Zhang in intelligent manufacturing, especially in the "trust tax" which is used to increase transaction efficiency [6].…”