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This project is fabricated to ease medication consumption, especially for the elderly that always forget the proper time to consume their prescribed medicine. Thousands of cases have been recorded throughout the decade of wrong consumption of medicine. This may lead to serious issue as improper medicine dose is ineffective for the sickness that they suffer. This paper aims to develop an automated pill dispenser that triggers the alarm to the elderly, records the medication drop data using ThingSpeak, and notifies the caretaker through the Blynk application. This paper uses Arduino ATmega 2560 as the microcontroller for the device. It will be connected to a Wi-Fi module to transmit the data for the ThingSpeak platform and notifies the caretaker through the Blynk application. The paper will surely help eliminate the underdose and overdose issue, especially among the elderly and ease guardian’s worries about their absentness at the moment of medicine consumption. It is hoped that this paper can be used to replace hand-held pillbox device that is a hassle toward the elderly.
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Aziz, S.A., Sajak, A.A.B., Ramly, R., Zulfakar, M.H. (2023). IoT Automated Pill Dispenser for Elderly Care. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1610-6_2
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