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Sensors are embedded into the pills which can be ingested by the patients. These sensors will monitor whether the patient has taken prescribed medicines at the right time. If the medicines are not taken properly, it will be alerting through the connected devices.

Most of the times patients does not follow doctor’s prescription, they either miss to take medicines on time or they may take overdose of the medicines. They may not follow the proper time gap for each medicine. All these issues may lead to serious medical conditions and result in expensive medical treatments.

These situations can be avoided by ingestible sensors which regularly monitors the patients and alerts them to take medicines on time. Taking care of the patients also becomes much easier with the support of such smart devices.