Study of IOT Systems To Create A Low-Cost Smart Medicine System

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that has improved society's day-to-day operations. This model has been used in a variety of fields, including AAL, energy, transportation, environmental, urban monitoring, and healthcare. IoT also have many benefits in the healthcare sector, including continuous health monitoring, improved quality of life, and comfort, to name a few. Smart medicine boxes, a system that provides users with medication care tracking, are one form of IoT application in this domain. It enables health providers to confirm that users are adhering to their treatment regimens and aids in decision-making. The majority of smart medicine box projects in the literature are still costly and do not fix certain IoT device characteristics like scalability, latency, and time to answer, among others. Taking this scenario into account, this paper proposes a low-cost IoT device prototype to assist users with medication manipulation. The proposal uses the idea of edge computing to introduce an intermediate layer that improves connectivity between devices and services. KEYWORDS:  IoT, AAL, ICT, e-health