Abstract

The project will take care of people who requires the reminder & forgot to take their medicine on time. Elder people or people with Alzheimer’s disease always forgot to take medicines on time due to their age & medical conditions. The project will help to remind the patient to take his/her medicines at prescribed time by doctors.

The patient can store the respective time of the particular medicine through a matrix keypad. Based on the time entered by user the program will run on microcontroller with reference of real time from RTC (Real time clock) & when current timing matches with time entered by user the buzzer will sound & name of the medicine to be taken will be displayed.

Block Diagram

Key Components used

• PIC16F877a (microcontroller)
• DS1307 (RTC)
• Alphanumeric Keypad
• 16*2 lcd
• buzzer

Working

• The project uses RTC (Real time clock) DS1307 which is connected to our microcontroller for the real time reference.
• A matrix keypad is also interfaced with microcontroller for user timing input purpose.
• Right now, our controller has the names of medicine stored on it for which we can enter timing if they are prescribed to us.
• When the real time reaches to the time entered by a user an alarm will be rang & the name of the medicine which should be taken is displayed.

Demo

Advantages

1. Cheaper system
2. can also be implemented in hospitals to reduce human efforts

Disadvantages

1. Right now project doesn’t provide provision to store name of medicines we have to choose them from list present their
2. Are not feasible for outdoor patient

Applications

1. For elder people
2. In hospitals
3. People with complex medicine schedules
4. For Alzheimer’s patient

Future development

With the advancement in technology by integrating it with GSM & other IOT technologies outdoor patients can also receive message or call alert on their mobile.

Also with the help of external memory interfacing user can also store name of medicines by themselves.

At the end, we can conclude that right now the project has very limited applications but with future enhancement it can be implemented for anyone.