Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia from 2020, a shortage of medical staff has been revealed due to the rising number of patients.Especially when Movement Control Order (MCO) finished, the critical ill patients returned back to emergency departments causing overcrowded crisis in emergency departments.Additionally, the issue of shortage of nurses in Malaysia had always been the major problem.With the rising of patients, workload of existing nurses in Malaysia increased and hence directly immense pressure on them.In order to the insufficient of medical staffs, smart pill box had been invented in the market nowadays.However, it does not benefit to some groups of patients for example, elderly, children and the patients with dysphagia symptom, as they had difficulty in shallowing solid medication such as pills and tablets.Therefore, this paper presents the invention of smart liquid medicine dispenser with Internet of Things (IoT) by using the components of ESP32 microcontroller, peristaltic liquid pump for transferring liquid medicine, L298N DC motor driver module for controlling the speed and time taken for the peristaltic liquid pump to spin, HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor for switching properties of the prototype, and a passive buzzer for notification.Besides, Arduino Cloud IoT Remote application is utilized as the platform of IoT.As a result, the smart liquid medicine dispenser with IoT able to dispense liquid medicine with the accuracy of 98% to 100%.
Authors: Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Cheah Man Lok, Nurmiza Othman, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
Institution: Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia
Language: English
Topic: Arduino and IoT Applications
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407682802