A Novel Approach of Microcontroller based Automatic Medication Reminder (AMR) System for Patients

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel idea to provide the information automatically to patients to take their right dosages at appropriate time. Now a day, most of the patients may forget to take their medicines as per the prescription due to mental stress. Hence, it may cause prolong period to recover from the diseases. Sometimes, the aged patients are gulping tablets and their dosage level incorrectly causing a severe problem. Henceforth, it is necessary to the patient to take proper medicines at precise quantity and time. To overcome these problems, a novel Automatic Medication Reminder (AMR) system is proposed. This system uses a normal 4x4 matrix keypad, Microcontroller (Master IC & Slave IC), LCD display and Real Time Clock (RTC) module and an alarm system used to intimate the patients to take proper dosage at right time. The master microcontroller is interfaced with timer, LCD display and 4x4 matrix keypad used to store the details of the prescriptions of a particular patient. The Slave IC is used to engross the instructions from Master IC and it would work as per the instructions. This portable and economical AMR system would help aged patients especially to the illiterate people.