Description:Field of the Invention
This invention relates to IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system
Background of the Invention
Manual maintenance of medicines ledger records in medical stores and pharmacy requires huge amount of human labor and precision, at times due to human error there are chances of either over stocking or understocking of the medicines available in the pharmacy. This results in wastage of medicine as well as shortage of medicines. Furthermore, overstocking might result in the expiration dates of medicines costing the medical store and pharmacy in huge amount of revenue. There is requirement of developing an automated inventory system that could maintain and monitor the stock with all the details using IoT based technologies.
CN103400255A The invention discloses a logistics real-time tracking supervision method and a system. The system comprises a transportation device, an RFID (radio frequency identification device) label, a wireless radio frequency reader-writer, a supervision control device, a monitoring center, a warming device, a photographic device and a positioning and navigation module, wherein the wireless radio frequency reader-writer is used for detecting the RFID label to obtain the real-time information of an article; as the photographic device is arranged on the transportation device, and an image analysis module connected with a control host is arranged on the supervision control device, the face information and pre-stored head portrait information of a transportation person are obtained; the positioning and navigation module is mounted on the transportation device to obtain the running state information of the transportation device. By utilizing the innovative advantages, the invention provides the logistics real-time tracking supervision system which is more effective for supervision, stable in performance and reliable
Research Gap: The proposed device will help to maintain the Temperature and humidity around the medicine to avoid effects from high temperature.
WO2016061560A1 An automated tracking system for a pharmacy that maintains each medication's Unique Drug Identifier ("UDI") information from the stock supply container to individual prescriptions filled therefrom. The UDI information automatically travels with each individual prescription until it is dispensed to a customer or patient, thereby allowing the medication contained therein to be returned to stock without risk of losing key information about the medication such as its expiration date and the like. In disclosed embodiments, the computer system can monitor key UDI information of the stock supply containers and the individual filled prescriptions to promote use of medications expiring sooner than others in the pharmacy, locate, track and promote use of returned to stock medications that have not been returned to the supply containers, and prevent the dispensing of expired or about to expire medications.
Research Gap: The system maintains the medicine stock like how much stock we have available, stock of medicine that has been sold, and how much medicine we have to order, and there also we have cameras to monitor the stock and via internet all the footage will display on the LCD display as well as on Web application.
JP2019135632A To enable more reliable quality assurance at medical institutions and reduce distribution costs of an entire industry by using a common medicine inventory management system for a plurality of distributors.SOLUTION: A common medicine inventory management system includes: environmental maintenance storage means for storing medicines while maintaining environmental conditions; storage environment detection means for acquiring information related to the environmental conditions; storage state detection means for detecting that the medicines are stored by the environmental maintenance storage means; delivery instruction means for instructing delivery of the medicines for standard delivery sources; delivery instruction distribution means that distributes the delivery instructions into the standard delivery instructions for standard delivery sources and non-standard delivery instructions for non-standard delivery sources; delivery processing means for delivering all medicines related to the delivery instructions to the delivery destinations of the medicines; and delivery information transmission means for transmitting information to the non-standard delivery destinations that the medicines related to the non-standard delivery instructions have been delivered by the delivery processing means.
Research gap: Here bar code scanner will scan the expiry date of medicine and when we have fewer stock then there is a buzzer which produce a sound. The system consists of humidity sensor, temperature sensor, weight sensor, expiry date detection sensor, cameras, Display, app, and unique id identifier.
None of the prior art indicate above either alone or in combination with one another disclose what the present invention has disclosed. Present invention is IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts, in a simplified format, that are further described in the detailed description of the invention.
This summary is neither intended to identify key or essential inventive concepts of the invention and nor is it intended for determining the scope of the invention.
To further clarify advantages and features of the present invention, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to specific embodiments thereof, which is illustrated in the appended drawings. It is appreciated that these drawings depict only typical embodiments of the invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope. The invention will be described and explained with additional specificity and detail with the accompanying drawings.
This figure1.1 medicine inventory Stock-In module this is a IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system which monitor and maintain the medicine information like how much stock we have, how much medicine stock is sold and how much medicine we have to order
So, this figure 1.1 is a diagram for Stock-In module which maintain the information about how much stock we have, this system consists of Computing unit (101) it processes the data from the input module and releases output according to the program, Humidity sensor (102) it senses the humidity around the medicine and it have been designed in a way that they can detect any changes in the air’s, Temperature sensor (103) is a gadget that can be used to measure the level of heat or coolness around the medicine/drug if the level of temperature increase from normal level to high level then it automatically send the information to the computing unit about the temperature, Bar code scanner/ Expiry date detection sensor (104) here bar code scanner will scan the date of the medicine/drug that it is expired or not, there is a cameras which work as an surveillance as well as through this we can easily see our medicine stock, and all the footage of the cameras will display (106) on the screen as well as the sensor value that sensor detect, Unique id Identifier (112) it help to see the stock with help of unique id the information easily accessed about the shelf because each shelf have own different identification id, and then all the information about the sensor we can easily see on application (108) via internet, all the component of entire system will get power from power supply(111).
The figure1.2 medicine inventory medicine-out module is a IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system which monitor the medicine stock how much medicine has been sold/out of the stock this diagram consisting of computing unit (101) which process the data from the input module, the weight sensor (102) it measure the weight of the medicine stock according to the latest weight in the shelf it tells how much medicine is sold, Buzzer (108) if we have less stock of medicine is available them it automatically buzzer produce a sound for a short time, cameras (106) here cameras work as an surveillance to check the stock and the footage of the cameras will display on display unit (103) and also through cloud server (104) we can get all the information about the stock on web app (105), all the entire component will get power from power supply (107).
The figure1.3 medicine inventory medicine-out module is a IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system which monitor the medicine stock how much medicine is available in the stock this diagram consisting of computing unit (201) which process the data from the input module, the weight sensor (202) it measure the weight of the medicine stock according to the latest weight in the shelf it tells how much medicine is available in our medical store, Buzzer (208) if we have less stock of medicine is available them it automatically buzzer produce a sound for a short time, cameras (206) here cameras work as an surveillance to check the stock and the footage of the cameras will display on display unit (203) and also through cloud server (204) we can get all the information about the stock on web app (205), all the entire component will get power from power supply (207), through unique id we easily accessed the information about each shelf (211).

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The illustrated embodiments of the subject matter will be understood by reference to the drawings, wherein like parts are designated by like numerals throughout. The following description is intended only by way of example, and simply illustrates certain selected embodiments of devices, systems, and methods that are consistent with the subject matter as claimed herein, wherein:
Figure1.1 Medicine Inventory Stock-In Module
Fig 1.2 Medicine Inventory Medicine-Out Module)
Figure 1.3 System Architecture
The figures depict embodiments of the present subject matter for the purposes of illustration only. A person skilled in the art will easily recognize from the following description that alternative embodiments of the structures and methods illustrated herein may be employed without departing from the principles of the disclosure described herein.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The detailed description of various exemplary embodiments of the disclosure is described herein with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments are described herein in such details as to clearly communicate the disclosure. However, the amount of details provided herein is not intended to limit the anticipated variations of embodiments; on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
It is also to be understood that various arrangements may be devised that, although not explicitly described or shown herein, embody the principles of the present disclosure. Moreover, all statements herein reciting principles, aspects, and embodiments of the present disclosure, as well as specific examples, are intended to encompass equivalents thereof.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments. As used herein, the singular forms “a",” “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes” and/or “including,” when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groups thereof.
It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions/acts noted may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two figures shown in succession may, in fact, be executed concurrently or may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality/acts involved.
In addition, the descriptions of "first", "second", “third”, and the like in the present invention are used for the purpose of description only, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying their relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, features defining "first" and "second" may include at least one of the features, either explicitly or implicitly.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which example embodiments belong. It will be further understood that terms, e.g., those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.
These and other advantages of the present subject matter would be described in greater detail with reference to the following figures. It should be noted that the description merely illustrates the principles of the present subject matter. It will thus be appreciated that those skilled in the art will be able to devise various arrangements that, although not explicitly described herein, embody the principles of the present subject matter and are included within its scope.
This figure1.1 medicine inventory Stock-In module this is a IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system which monitor and maintain the medicine information like how much stock we have, how much medicine stock is sold and how much medicine we have to order
So, this figure 1.1 is a diagram for Stock-In module which maintain the information about how much stock we have, this system consists of Computing unit (101) it processes the data from the input module and releases output according to the program, Humidity sensor (102) it senses the humidity around the medicine and it have been designed in a way that they can detect any changes in the air’s, Temperature sensor (103) is a gadget that can be used to measure the level of heat or coolness around the medicine/drug if the level of temperature increase from normal level to high level then it automatically send the information to the computing unit about the temperature, Bar code scanner/ Expiry date detection sensor (104) here bar code scanner will scan the date of the medicine/drug that it is expired or not, there is a cameras which work as an surveillance as well as through this we can easily see our medicine stock, and all the footage of the cameras will display (106) on the screen as well as the sensor value that sensor detect, Unique id Identifier (112) it help to see the stock with help of unique id the information easily accessed about the shelf because each shelf have own different identification id, and then all the information about the sensor we can easily see on application (108) via internet, all the component of entire system will get power from power supply(111).
The figure1.2 medicine inventory medicine-out module is a IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system which monitor the medicine stock how much medicine has been sold/out of the stock this diagram consisting of computing unit (101) which process the data from the input module, the weight sensor (102) it measure the weight of the medicine stock according to the latest weight in the shelf it tells how much medicine is sold, Buzzer (108) if we have less stock of medicine is available them it automatically buzzer produce a sound for a short time, cameras (106) here cameras work as an surveillance to check the stock and the footage of the cameras will display on display unit (103) and also through cloud server (104) we can get all the information about the stock on web app (105), all the entire component will get power from power supply (107).
The figure1.3 medicine inventory medicine-out module is a IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system which monitor the medicine stock how much medicine is available in the stock this diagram consisting of computing unit (201) which process the data from the input module, the weight sensor (202) it measure the weight of the medicine stock according to the latest weight in the shelf it tells how much medicine is available in our medical store, Buzzer (208) if we have less stock of medicine is available them it automatically buzzer produce a sound for a short time, cameras (206) here cameras work as an surveillance to check the stock and the footage of the cameras will display on display unit (203) and also through cloud server (204) we can get all the information about the stock on web app (205), all the entire component will get power from power supply (207), through unique id we easily accessed the information about each shelf (211).
ADVANTAGES OF THE INVENTION:
1. Through Weight sensor we can easily predict how much medical is sold/available.
2. Overstocking and understocking would be minimal.
3. Real time information about the available stock of the medicine
4. Bar code scanner/ Expiry date detection through this sensor we get all the updates about medicine expiry date.
, Claims:We Claim:
1. An IoT assisted Smart drug Inventory maintenance & monitoring system comprises Computing Unit (101), Humidity Sensor (102), Temperature Sensor (103), Bar Code Scanner/Expiry Date Detection Sensor (104), Camera (105), Display (106), Cloud Server (107), App (108), Power Supply (111), Unique ID Identifier (112), Computing Unit (101), Weight Sensor (102), Display Unit (103), Cloud Server (104), Web App (105), Cameras (106), Power Supply (107), Buzzer (108), Computing Unit (201), Weight Sensor (102), Display Unit (203), Cloud Server (204), Web App (205), Cameras (206), Power Supply (207), and Buzzer (208)
2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein Computing unit (101) processes the data from the input module and releases output according to the program, Humidity sensor (102) it senses the humidity around the medicine and it have been designed in a way that they can detect any changes in the airs.
3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein Temperature sensor (103) is a gadget that is used to measure the level of heat or coolness around the medicine/drug if the level of temperature increases from normal level to high level then it automatically sends the information to the computing unit about the temperature.
4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein Bar code scanner/ Expiry date detection sensor (104) here bar code scanner scans the date of the medicine/drug that it is expired or not, there is a cameras which work as an surveillance as well as through this we can easily see our medicine stock, and all the footage of the cameras will display (106) on the screen as well as the sensor value that sensor detect.
5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein Unique id Identifier (112) it help to see the stock with help of unique id the information easily accessed about the shelf because each shelf have own different identification id, and then all the information about the sensor we can easily see on application (108) via internet, all the component of entire system will get power from power supply (111).
6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein computing unit (101) which process the data from the input module, the weight sensor (102) it measure the weight of the medicine stock according to the latest weight in the shelf it tells how much medicine is sold, Buzzer (108) if user have less stock of medicine is available them it automatically buzzer produce a sound for a short time, cameras (106) here cameras work as an surveillance to check the stock and the footage of the cameras will display on display unit (103) and also through cloud server (104) we can get all the information about the stock on web app (105), all the entire component will get power from power supply (107).
7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein computing unit (201) which process the data from the input module, the weight sensor (202) it measure the weight of the medicine stock according to the latest weight in the shelf it tells how much medicine is available in user’s medical store, Buzzer (208) if user have less stock of medicine is available them it automatically buzzer produce a sound for a short time, cameras (206) here cameras work as an surveillance to check the stock and the footage of the cameras will display on display unit (203) and also through cloud server (204) user gets all the information about the stock on web app (205), all the entire components get power from power supply (207), through unique id we easily accessed the information about each shelf (211).