Automatic Medicine Vending Machine

ABSTRACT

The Medicine Vending Machine as the name suggests is a vending machine that will dispense
the required medicine as per the user’s choice. It provides an all-encompassing solution to an
individual looking for immediate symptomatic relief for trivial health problems. It can also
decrease the current costs of open medicine cabinets. In today’s world, when a regular
customer goes to medical shops customer faces difficulties where medicines are not affordable
for all classes of people and medical shops may not be available 24/7. In this project we are
trying to develop a prototype of medicine vending machine which will provide generic
medicines to the customers at affordable rates. The prototype will be equipped with RFID
technology for authentication and dispensing mechanism. In the proposed system the user will
be issued a card where details will be stored in the database. The user initially swipes the card,
if he is a valid user access will be granted and list of the medicines will be displayed on the
console. The user can select the medicines based on his/her requirements. Once the medicine
is selected it gets dispensed and user can collect it. After the process ends the information
regarding user and his selected medicines will be tracked in the database through WIFI module.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES...........................................................................v

LIST OF TABLES............................................................................vi

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION......................................................................................1

1.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM...................................................................................2

1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT..........................................................................3

1.2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE..............................................................................4

CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE SURVEY.......................................................................... 5

CHAPTER 3

HARDWARE DECRIPTION....................................................................7

3.1 ARM CORTEX M3 LPC1768...................................................................7

3.1.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION..........................................................7

3.1.2 FEATURES AND BENEFITS......................................................8

3.2 RFID READER...........................................................................................9

3.2.1 RFID TAG.......................................................................................9

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3.2.2 RFID WORKING..........................................................................10

3.3 KEYPAD....................................................................................................11

3.4 UART.........................................................................................................12

3.5 WIFI MODULE (ESP8266).......................................................................13

CHAPTER 4

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS..............................................................14

4.1 KEIL U VISION 4.....................................................................................14

4.2 EMBEDDED C..........................................................................................15

4.2.1 ADVANTAGES OF EMBEDDED C............................................15

4.3 WEB DESIGN...........................................................................................15

CHAPTER 5

PROJECT DESCRIPTION.......................................................................16

5.1 BLOCK DIAGRAM..................................................................................16

5.1.1 POWER SUPPLY........................................................................17

5.1.2 LCD DISPLAY............................................................................17

5.1.3 TOUCHPAD.................................................................................18

5.1.4 DC MOTORS AND RELAYS.....................................................18

5.1.5 RFID TAG AND BOARD............................................................19

5.1.6 WIFI MODULE(ESP8266)...........................................................19

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CHAPTER 6

IMPLEMENTATION..............................................................................20

6.1 FLOWCHART..........................................................................................20

6.2 ALGORITHM............................................................................................21

6.3 HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION.........................................................21

6.3.1 INTERFACING LCD WITH ARM CORTEX M3......................22

6.3.2 INTERFACING RFID WITH CORTEX M3..............................22

6.3.3 INTERFACING OF KEYPAD WITH CORTEX M3.................23

6.4 SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION........................................................24
6.4.1 HTML AND CSS.........................................................................24
CHAPTER 7

RESULTS..................................................................................................26

CHAPTER 8

CONLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE....................................................29

8.1 CONCLUSION.........................................................................................29

8.2 FUTURE SCOPE.......................................................................................29

8.3 ADVANTAGES........................................................................................30

REFERENCES.............................................................................................31

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LIST OF FIGURES

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FIG (1.1.1) Block Diagram 2

FIG (3.1.1) Arm Cortex M3 7

FIG (3.2.1) RFID Reader 9

FIG (3.2.1.1) RFID Tags 9

FIG (3.2.2.1) RFID Working 10

FIG (3.3.1) Keypad/Touchpad 11

FIG (3.4.1) UART 12

FIG (3.5.1) WIFI Module 13

FIG (5.1.1) Block Diagram 16

FIG (5.1.1.1) Power Supply 17

FIG (5.1.2.1) LCD 17

FIG (5.1.3.1) Touchpad 18

FIG (5.1.4.1) Motor with belt 18

FIG (5.1.5.1) RFID 19

FIG (5.1.6.1) ESP 8266 19

FIG (6.1) Flow Chart 20

FIG (6.3.1.1) LCD interfacing with controller 22

FIG (6.3.1.1) LCD interfacing with controller 23

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