A Review on Dispenser Mechanisms of Medicine Dispenser
Sagar S Acharya, Sowmya Kini, Shreeraj Hegde, Ashwitha Sathish Kumar · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
In the modern age it is difficult for family members to be available all the time to support the aged and in our society most families are nuclear. Caring for the aged is of serious concern in the developing countries. Sometimes despite their best effort, the aged fail to remember to take their medication on time. There are issues concerning seniors' ability to remember to take and handle their medicine on their own. Automatic medicine dispenser is one approach as a solution to this problem. It dispenses medicines on prescribed time with notifying the caretaker. There are various medicine dispensers with same functionality and IOT but different dispenser mechanism and design. The design and mechanism vary with the type and size of medicine. The main concern is dispenser design as the medicines are in various shapes and sizes. Hence a optimal dispensing mechanism for storing and dispensing all types of medicines is required. In this paper, a detailed review of dispensing mechanism of the Automatic Medicine Dispensers and its design is presented.