DAR ES SALAAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING.
PROJECT TITLE: DESIGN OF AN INTELLIGENT PORTABLE PATIENT MEDICINE
REMINDER SYSTEM AT HOME.
PROJECT TYPE: PROBLEM SOLVING.
PRESENTED BY; SAIDY KHALIFA ABDALLAH
ADMISSION No.160321122451
CLASS: OD16BEE.
YEAR: 2018/2019
INTRODUCTION

The category of patients involve all human beings-teachers, students,

businessmen, housewives, children and also all of us have a busy hectic schedule.
Today’s life is full of responsibilities and stress. So people are prone to diseases of
different types and it is our duty to make ourselves stay fit and health.
PROBLEM STATEMENT.

• Due to large number of patients at hospitals and long working hours it makes
difficult for nurses to keep trends of patient medication on time hence may give
the medication late to patient.
• Most of patient does not have pharmacy knowledge hence they might overdose
themselves or might fail to know which is the right medication to take due to
difficult medical terminologies hence the caregiver must be reminded on time to
give medication to patient and the correct dosage.
 MAIN OBJECTIVE

The main aim of this project is to design a patient medication reminder device for
nurses at hospitals.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• To design a circuit for medicine reminder

• To establish a patient medication reminder device for nurses at hospitals.
• To build up the prototype of the system
• To simulate the prototype.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT:

• It ensures that the patient takes medicine as predescribed by the doctor on the
correct time.
• Helps the nurses to keep trends of each patient medication history easily.
• In case on duty nurse got emergency it helps the other nurses to monitor patient
medication timely and correctly.
METHODOLOGY

• Literature review
• Data collection and analysis
• The hardware and software designing
• Testing and result
LITERETURE REVIEW:

Many Medication Systems have been developed based upon different platforms
and concepts.Many times patient forgot to take medicine on time once they
discharged from hospital and due to this negligence it may causes to death. So to
avoid such situation LIANG developed such system which reminds taking the
medicine on time. For such system he uses local web-net, LCD Display.
EXISTING SYSTEM:

Normally, patient’s health information facts had been recorded inside the shape of
paper and stored.when the patient takes medicine from the near by
dispensary/pharmacy he/she then stores the medicine at home it may be whether at
cupboard or any safe place .
PROPOSED SYSTEM

proposed system is based on Operating system which will remind the caregiver to give medicines on time
through automatic alarm ringing and notification of the respective prescription of the patient on the LCD
DATA COLLECTION.

• is the process of gathering and measuring information on variables of interest, in

an established systematic fashion that enables one to answer stated research
questions, test hypotheses, and evaluate outcomes
DATA ANALYSIS
proposed circuit diagram
Data analysis cont…….
Operation of the proposed circuit
• The working of this system is,When the ac mains is switched on, a 12-
volt supply is given to the voltage regulator. This voltage is then
stepped down to 5 volts and sent to the power supply board. Here,
the AC volt is converted to DC using a series of resistors and a rectifier
network. The capacitive network then filters the DC voltage; the
regulated output is sent finally to the microcontroller board . In the
microcontroller board, the AT89S51 microcontroller is pre-embedded
with a software program using a Keil compiler.
Data analysis cont….
MICROCONTROLLER
• ATmega328/P microcontroller
Standard operating voltage = 5v
Output supply voltage = (3.3 – 5)v
DC current on In/Output pin = 40mA
Power = IV
= 5v x 40mA
Power = 0.2W
Frequency (clock speed) = 16MHz
Flash memory = 35Kb (0.5 is used for boot loader)
It has high performance
Data analysis cont…….
• Crystal oscillator
Used for generating clock signals to maintain the speed of the
microcontroller ( for synchronisation purpose).
Desired clock frequency by the microcontroller = 16MHz
From a 16MHz Crystal choice ( FOXSLF/160-20e)
Frequency = 16MHz
Frequency tolerance = 30PPM
Load capacitance = 22pF
Data analysis cont……
• Liquid crystal display (LCD) 16x4.
Character LCD 16x4.
- This displays 16 characters per line and there are four such
lines.
- Connected in a 4bit data mode
Required input voltage = 5v
Data analysis cont…….
• MEMORY MODULE(AT24LC256 )
Serial Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), capable of 2.5V to 5.5V operation. It has been developed for
advanced, low-power applications such as data acquisition.
• Operating voltage 2.5V to 5.5V
• Read current 400 uA, max.
• Standby current 1 uA, max.
• Max. Clock Frequency 400 kHz.
Data analysis cont…..
• Power supply
Input voltage form main supply = 12V DC
• A 12V DC battery has been used.
• Voltage regulator used is the LM series regulator 7805 for a 5V supply which
maintains the output voltage at constant value, then power is supplied to the
circuit board.
Data analysis cont….
• Buzzer
The speaker (buzzer) is required to have an ability to accept the gain
of about (40dB -45dB) which is a suitable gain of a human being ear
can accept. From the data sheet;
• Works from 2Khz to 10khz
• The minimum rated voltage of piezo buzzer is 5V DC
• Operating voltage = 3-6V DC
• Current consumption 30mA
• Sound level = 89db
Data analysis cont…..
• VOLTAGE REGULATOR
7805 Voltage Regulator The 7805 (sometimes L7805) is a family of self-
contained fixed linear voltage regulator integrated circuits. electronic
circuits requiring a regulated power supply due to their ease-of-use
and low cost.
The 7805 IC RATING
• Input voltage range 7V-35V
• Current rating Ic=1A
• Output voltage range Vmax=5.2V, Vmin=4.8V
Data analysis cont….
REAL TIME CLOCK ( RTC ).

RTC stands for real time clock and used to keep the system update with
current time and date. This is one of the features of ATmega328/P
The Lithium cell of 3.3V is used to keep the time running.
Data analysis cont….
• PUSH BUTTON

• Push button switch (BUTTOON)

Applicable voltage ~ 5v
Applicable current ~ 1mA
Operating current = 500µA
• Resistor (R2)
since V = IR
R = V/I
R = 5v/500µA
R = 10kΩ
REFERENCES:

Code Bender. (2015). How to Use a Keypad - Arduino Tutorial: 4 Steps. Retrieved
from http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-use-a-Keypad-Arduino-Tutorial/
Rita M. Agans, A. R. M. (1992). Medicine reminder and dispenser. Retrieved from
https://www.google.com/patents/US5159581