MeddyCall: A Prototype of Smart Household-Drug Vending Machines for Residential Buildings

Household drugs or home medicines are normally nonprescription drugs that every family should prepare for relieving sickness. However, as our survey, many small households having 1–3 members in apartments or dormitories do not have a well preparation of necessary household drugs, and the worse is that some drugs have been expired. To this end, this work proposes an approach to the development of a nonprescription-drug vending machine in a residential building for serving home medicine to all residents in the building. We also introduce a smart way to order and get drugs using the inter operability of an application, a vending machine, and a server. The implemented prototype demonstrates that our approach is possible and feasible to serve a better service for accessing home medicines.