Design of Voice Based Pill Ejector System
Sheeba Abraham, G. Hari Krishnan, R. J. Hemalatha, Sindu Divakaran and G. UmashankarDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Sathyabama University, Chennai-119, India.
Abstract: The advancement in technology has lead to many innovations in the field of medicine. Nowadays most of the vital equipments are configured digitally since this field needs more meticulousness. The project aims to develop a Household Digitalized Voice Activated E-Pill Ejector module that will remind the patients to take the medicines in time with the ejection of medicine after receiving a voice feedback. To cure the disease one has to take the exact dosage of medicine on time, over dosage of medicine can be fatal to the patient. Thus the Digitalized E-Pill Ejector module will help to reduce such problems by reminding the patient to consume the right medicine on time. Aged people are mainly benefited by this innovation. The proposed system consist of an Embedded System based Microprocessor Unit which is the central controller module that controls the entire operation of the E-Pill Ejector module along with a Clock generating unit, a partitioned box to load medicines according the doctor’s prescription, Buzzer unit as reminder, an RTC(Real Time Clock) module to feed the time schedule, Keyboard interface to set the time schedule, motors with its driver units to rotate the medicine loaded cabin and a voice recognition module to eject the medicine after the speech recognition.
Keywords: E-pill ejector; microprocessor; speech recognition Back to TOC