Project Phase – II Presentation on
“Anytime medicine vending machine”
Presented by,
Manjunath. HK, 4AL17EC050, 8th Sem ‘A’ Sec, Dept. of ECE
Harsha. P, 4AL17EC054, 8th Sem ‘A’ Sec, Dept. of ECE
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Channabasava, 4AL17EC059, 8th Sem ‘A’ Sec, Dept.
of ECE
Darshan, 4AL17EC059, 8th Sem ‘A’ Sec, Dept. of ECE
Under the guidance of,
Mr. SUDHAKARA`HM
Senior Assistant Professor
Dept. of ECE
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*INTRODUCTION
*PHASE – I IN A NUTSHELL
*BLOCK DIAGRAM
*COMPONENTS USED
*METHODOLOGY
*CONCLUSION
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Vending machines have been used to serve the wide clientele with the variety of
products handling from green grocery to processed products .
 If the vending machine is fully automated, the transactions can be done by the customer
without any manual in the intervention or time restrictions.
 An automatic medicine vending machine with self-contained on-site medicines
dispensing mechanism and a storage facility for the plurality of medicines that can be
dispensed based on the user requirement.
 The aim of this prototype is that temporary relief is to be given out that can give people
a better chance of resisting the health from withdrawing before they are able to reach the
doctor.
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PROBLEM STATEMENT
 As medical stores are not available at all circumstances, we can set up this
machine at any place.
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Vending machine have the mobility, they can be portable and continue to
deliver the services as usual.
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To eliminate the need of human resource.
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Customers can easily access the medicines in cases of emergency or
whenever required.
 To avoid faulty distribution of medicines to customers.
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MOTIVATION
 Diagnosis is always a concern for the people living in rural areas and for those
traveling long distances in trains or buses.
 At the same time, medicine availability also has a major impact excluding the
factor about a complete cure.
 The absence of 24 hours of medical providers in rural areas and the absence of
medicines in bus stands, railway stations, and highways motivated us towards this
work.
LITERATURE SURVEY
 developed a medicine dispenser for prototype for caregivers as well as the patients
of Alzheimer’s disease. In the device the caregivers have to input the medicines or
refill the dispensers for the by scanning the medicines using bar code scanners.
 The patients have to touch the screen of the GUI and the medicine(s) will be
dispensed out. If the patients failed to take their medicines in given duration of
time the caregiver gets notified through SMS.
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 Discussed the construction of smart medication dispenser having a high
degree of scalability and remote manageability.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
1. User identification.
2. Selection of requirements.
3. e-payment
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DISPLAY
Camera
module
RFID
Keypad
Power
Supply
Dispenser
PROCESSOR
GSM
Temperature
Sensor
Figure : Block diagram of Anytime medicine vending machine
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1. RASPBERRY PI 3 MODEL B+
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is a 64-bit quad-core
processor with 1.4GHz clock frequency. It comes with
dual band wireless LAN, Bluetooth
4.2/BLE(Bluetooth Low Energy), faster Ethernet and
Power over Ethernet support
Fig.: RASPBERRY PI 3 MODEL B+
2. RFID READER
RFID (Radio frequency identification) is a form of
wireless communication that incorporates the use of
electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the radio
frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to
uniquely identify an object, animal or person.
Fig.2: RFID READER
3. KEYPAD:
The hex keypad is a peripheral that connects to the DE2
through JP1 or JP2 via a 40-pin ribbon cable. It has 16
buttons in a 4 by 4 grid, labeled with the hexadecimal
digits 0 to F.
4.LCD DISPLAY:
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Fig. 3: KEYPAD
LCD display module with BLUE Backlight
Operate with 5V DC
SIZE : 20x4 (4 Rows and 20 Characters Per Row)
Can display 4-lines X 20-characters wide viewing
angle and high contrast.
5.GSM MODULE:
Fig. 4:LCD DISPLAY
A GSM modem is a special type of modem that accepts a
SIM card, and which operates over registering to a mobile
operator, just like our mobile phone.
Fig. 5: GSM MODULE
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6. pi Camera module
The Pi camera module is a portable light weight camera that
supports Raspberry Pi. It communicates with Pi using the
MIPI camera serial interface protocol. It is normally used in
image processing, machine learning or in surveillance
projects.
Fig.6.: pi Camera module
7. Stepper motors
A stepper motor is an electromechanical device it converts
electrical power into mechanical power. Also, it is a
brushless, synchronous electric motor that can divide a
full rotation into an expansive number of steps.
The motor’s position can be controlled accurately without
any feedback mechanism, as long as the motor is carefully
sized to the application.
Fig.7: Stepper motors
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8. RASPBERRY PI OS
Raspberry Pi Operating System(OS) is highly optimized for the Raspberry Pi line of
compact single-board computers with ARM CPUs. It runs on every Raspberry Pi except
the Pico micro-controller. Raspberry Pi OS uses a modified LXDE as its desktop
environment with the Openbox stacking window manager, along with a unique theme.
Fig.8: RASPBERRY PI OS
METHODOLOGY
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INITIALIZE
THE SYSTEM
PAYMENT
DEDUCTION
FROM THE CARD
COLLECT YOUR
MEDICINES
STOP
 A smart card reader is used as an input sensor.
 The input provided by the user through the keypad is then forwarded to the
Microcontroller for processing and for taking the required decisions in order to
proceed forward.
 The Microcontroller, with the help of the motor drivers, drives the concerned
medicine cabinet having the medicine that the user needs.
 These motor drivers control the rotation of the motor that dispenses medicines
from the medicine cabinet.
 The motor rotates the disk attached to it, which has a cavity. This cavity when
coincides with the cavity of the medicine cabinet, the medicine falls and arrives at
the outlet.
 Thus the medicine dispensing function is fully controlled by the motor drivers. The
user can then pick up the medicine from the outlet.
 This is a fully automatic process as no manual
support is needed.
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Conclusion
 It is important to consider how this technology may affect quality of medication delivery
and use. With quality as a major focus of the new wave of health care, how will
medication vending machines fare?
 If such mechanisms are inevitable, how will pharmacists complement this service?
 Will virtual pharmacist patient consultations be the new norm?
 Will such technology improve or worsen the existing patient-pharmacist relationship?
 How will the technology affect older adults who may be at increased risk for adverse
effects from medications?
 Many such questions remain unanswered. Nonetheless, as pharmacists looking to our
future, we must consider quality services that hold value to our patients and other health
professionals.
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