ABSTRACT

Anytime medicine vending machine, a machine which dispenses particularly medicines but in general a vending machine automatically dispenses any other items also with less human intervention. The user can buy the medicine of his choice just by swiping a card from which the amount gets deducted. This saves the person time as he doesn’t need to wait in queues in front of medical store. Also the women mainly who are shy to ask certain kinds of items like disposable pads can just go swipe the card and get their item without waiting for others. Thus similarly to Automatic Teller Machine, this can also be deployed anywhere and anytime allowing people to access it anytime. Moreover, during the times when a location is suffering from pandemic, this can save others from going to clinics thus contributing partly towards preventing the danger.

INTRODUCTON

The medicine providers are not present 24 hours with their shop open. Only a few pharmacies provide medicine services whole day. Such pharmacies are present very far away or only a few such shop exists for a particular location. So the person cannot go in search of such shops especially during night. The aim of our project is to develop a system which can dispense basic medicines which need not be prescribed by doctors. Every medicine has a limit beyond which it cannot be dispensed. Our system just offers few such items in limited manner. Such a system prototype is developed using microcontroller. Thus the system can be deployed in the areas where no pharmacies are present or in any rural areas. The advantage of this system is that it is easy to operate and user friendly. Such machines are needed to provide better healthcare facilities to people in remote areas. When working of this system is considered the user just needs to have RFID card to swipe and needs to proceed as per the instruction displayed on the LCD.

BLOCK DIAGRAM

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

A. Hardware Requirements:

1. Arduino UNO

2. LCD display

3. Switches

4. Motor driver

5. DC motor

6. Power supply

7. RFID module

8. Tag

B. Software Requirements:

1. Arduino IDE

2. Embedded C

Conclusion

The medicine vending machine offers great flexibility that it can be implemented in any rural area or remote places, thus contributing towards the improvement of healthcare sector. As it is user friendly, many people can get maximum advantage of it as they need not have to visit far away for pharmacies during night. Moreover it can be very helpful in the location which is suffering from pandemic as they need not have to pay visit to clinics or medical providers.