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In recent years, the ageing population is growing swiftly and ensuring proper healthcare for the elderly and physically challenged people has gained much attention from academic, medical or industrial experts. Many older people undergo sickness or inability, causing it challenging to look out of themselves concerning timely medicine taking. Any trivial ignorance, such as ignoring to take medications or taking shots at the wrong schedule, may cause potentially disastrous problems. This paper presents an intelligent medication system (called ‘iMedMS’) using IoT technology to monitor whether the patient is taking medicine according to the physician’s prescription and schedule. The system includes an alert system that notifies the patient about the exact time of medication and a feedback system that send SMS to the patient, physician or caregiver while any pillbox is empty. Moreover, the system embedded seven physical buttons to express the patient’s various feelings after taking medicine. Several experimental results show the functionality of the proposed medication system.
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Apu, K.I.Z., Hoque, M.M., Sarker, I.H. (2022). iMedMS: An IoT Based Intelligent Medication Monitoring System for Elderly Healthcare. In: Vasant, P., Zelinka, I., Weber, GW. (eds) Intelligent Computing & Optimization. ICO 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 371. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93247-3_30
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