DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, SCHOOL OF

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, PLATEAU

STATE POLYTECHNIC BARKIN LADI.

TITLE

PROJECT ON DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE

MEDICINE ORDERING SYSTEM

BY

BALOGUN OLAMIDOTUN

PSP/ICT/CSC/ND/21/1230

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

AWARD OF NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

(ND II COMPUTER SCIENCE)

SUPERVISOR

MRS. MARIYLN MODUPE

 Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction.................................................................................................1
1.1 Background.....................................................................................................1
1.2 Statement of the Problem............................................................................3
1.3 Aim and Objectives.....................................................................................3
1.4 Scope and Limitation of the Study..............................................................4
1.5 Literature Review........................................................................................4
1.6 Significance of the Project.........................................................................6
1.7 Research Methodology................................................................................6
1.8 Expected Outcome.........................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................8
1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

An online medicine delivery system is an online based web application that operates over the

Internet and sends orders to customers through credit cards, shipping companies, or pay on

delivery system. People can buy and sell their products sitting at home. It is getting popular

day by day all over the world even in domestic market space. The aim is to make the

ordering process and delivery systems of medicines much easier and customer-friendly. It’s

very important to make a user friendly environment

The current era can be identified as the age of internet, where manual, conventional and time-

consuming business tasks are performed over internet-based applications. The age of internet

caused the paradigm shift of many conventional industries from brick and mortar to click and

mortar. Similarly, the concept of E Pharmacy started to emerge the internet-based version of

retail pharmacy which was later identified to be a good solution for the inefficiencies of the

conventional retail pharmacy

This project seeks to reduce the barrier in accessing drugs in rural area, where there are no

pharmacies or scarcity of pharmacies and transportation networks are underdeveloped. it also

seek to create a medium where users can have access to limited varieties of medicine via the

web through their mobile devices.

The design of this system aims to reduce the traditional approach to obtaining medicines in

Nigeria, where individual have to visit physical pharmacies, many of which are concentrated

in urban centers. For people living in rural regions, this often means traveling long distances,

sometimes crossing multiple towns, to purchase necessary medications. This delay can have

serious health implications, especially for patients with chronic illnesses such as hypertension,

diabetes, or asthma who need regular access to prescription drugs. Furthermore, the presence

of counterfeit drugs in Nigeria's pharmaceutical market compounds the issue, as patients in

remote areas may encounter unlicensed sellers or substandard medications.

Online medicine shopping is a form of electronic shopping store where the buyer is directly

online to the seller’s computer usually via the internet. There is no intermediary service. The

sales and purchases transaction is completed electronically and interactively in real-time. The

development of this new system contains the activities which try to develop on-line

application by keeping the entire process in the view of database integration approach.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

In many regions, particularly rural areas, access to medications is limited by logistical

challenges, including long distances to pharmacies, lack of transportation, and the

unavailability of medicines. This project seeks to address these issues by designing an online

system that connects users to local pharmacies, allowing them to order medicines and have

them delivered to their location efficiently.

1.3 Aim and Objectives

Aim

To design and implement an online medicine ordering system.

Objectives:

1. To design an efficient online platform for ordering medicines.

2. To implement a secure and user-friendly system for patients, pharmacies, and

healthcare providers.

3. To evaluate the effectiveness of the system in improving accessibility, convenience,

and medication adherence.

1.4 Scope and Limitation of the Study

Scope of the Study

1. Online platform development (web)

2. Pharmacy and healthcare provider integration.

3. Order management and logistics.

Limitation of the study

This study is limited to medicine available in licensed pharmaceutical store in Plateau State

Polytechnic Barkin Ladi Medicals

1.5 Significance of the Project

This project is significant because it addresses the critical issue of medicine accessibility in

Nigeria, particularly for rural and underserved populations. By implementing an online

medicine delivery system, the project seeks to:

 Reduce the barriers to obtaining essential medicines, especially for patients in remote

areas who cannot easily access pharmacies.

 The study will improved accessibility to medicines, enhanced patient convenience,

Increased medication adherence and reduced healthcare costs

 Provide a convenient and efficient platform for ordering and delivering medications,

thus saving patients time and travel costs.

 CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

The implementation of an online can be identified as a solution for the inconveniences,

mismanagements and flaws involved in the ‘brick and mortar’ retail pharmacy process.

(Keralli, 2018). A study identifies that a transparent E Pharmacy process model allows both
customers and pharmacist to perform operation in an effective and uninterrupted manner.

(Ashita S. Patil, 2019)

According to the study by Abhishek S Keralli, three major components are found to be in a E

Pharmacy application. A web based or mobile based application which submits orders and

prescriptions, a process which involves a registered pharmacist to verify the prescription and a

mechanism to forward prescription to pharmacy store from where the items will be dispensed

(Keralli, 2018).

Alamelu R, et al proposed that Online pharma retail is promising/ unpromising avenue: In

this era of science and technology, computer plays an important role in community. Today,

computer is so ubiquitous in pharmaceutical research and development. The advent of the

internet has had a significant impact on the formation of an information-driven, rapid-paced

society. The number of internet users reached 150 million in only five years compared to 13

years for television

and 38 years for radio. Consumer expectation for access ,convenience, and speed has made

the cyberspace superhighway a medium for knowledge exchange and for e-commerce. The

internet offers a wide variety of health services and products to healthcare professionals as

well as to the public. Online

pharmaceutical sales have reached more than nearly $50 billion. This is a dramatic increase

when compared to the $1.9 billion in 1999. At the click of the mouse, medications can be
ordered and delivered conveniently to your door. Internet has evolved into a self-organizing

media, capable of multiple interactions within Anand, A., Sethi, et al proposed a large

number of consumer products including drugs are being advertised and sold over the Internet.

“Online Medicine Ordering System”

The most important objective of online remedy ordering gadget is to automate the
existing manual system with the assist of increase automated software so, that treasured
statistics can be stored for longer period with clean having access to and manipulation of
the identical. The registered user can get admission to the account with valid credentials.
User can surf the drugs gadgets consistent with classes, Cart and online charge options are
available to user. User can tune their orders with the medicine info.
In Online medicine Ordering System Admin can deal with the functionalities like add new
medicinal drug objects, edit/delete medication items, Enable/Disable the medicine objects
in line with availability and their expiry dates. Admin have authority to view order details
and update the transport popularity of medicines. The fee transaction and consumer
information are also viewable to admin.
Their website is built with word press and it is not user friendly. The above
mentioned companies have online medicine delivery system but they have some
limitations. Their website is not user friendly, they do not have many features and the
categories of products are limited. They have used normal word press based website to
develop their platform. They only deal with a cer-tain number of customers and their
service areas are also limited. Most of them have limited sources of supply. In this paper,
a user friendly, fast, safe, and Multifeatures web based online based e-commerce medicine
delivery system has been developed based on the demand of COVID-19 pandemic
situation.
• View Orders and Status: User can preserve music in their orders with shipping
fame. Tools:
Php, C#, Java, XML My SQL,WAMP Server
1.1.1 Umesh.K.N

“Online Medicine Ordering System”

We propose an authentication scheme in which users can be authenticated

anonymously so long as times that they are authenticated is within an allowable
number. The proposed scheme has two features that allow

1) No one, not even an authority, identify users who have been

authenticated within the allowable number, and that allow

2) Anyone to trace, without help from the authority, dishonest users who
have been authenticated beyond the allowable number by using the records of these
authentications.

Energy-aware scheduling algorithms developed for clouds are not real-time task
oriented, thus lacking the ability of guaranteeing system schedule ability. To address
this issue, this system used a novel rolling-horizon scheduling architecture for real-
time task scheduling in virtualized clouds. Based on its scheduling architecture, it
develop a novel energy-aware scheduling algorithm named EARH for real-time,
periodic , independent tasks. The EARH employs a rolling-horizon optimization policy
and can also be extended to integrate other energy-aware scheduling algorithms.
Furthermore, it proposes two strategies in terms of resource scaling up and scaling
down to make a good trade-off between task’s schedule ability and energy
conservation
1.1.2 Y. Dodis and A. Yampolskiy

“A verifiable random function with short proofs and keys”

We give a simple and efficient construction of a verifiable random function (VRF)

on bilinear groups. Our construction is direct. In contrast to prior VRF constructions, it
avoids using an inefficient Goldreich-Levin transformation, thereby saving several
factors in security.

The elasticity of Cloud infrastructures makes them a suitable platform for execution
of deadline-constrained workflow applications, because resources available to the
application can be dynamically increased to enable application speed up. Existing
research in execution of scientific workflows in Clouds either try to minimize the
workflow execution time ignoring deadlines and budgets or focus on the minimization
of cost while trying to meet the application deadline. However, they implement limited
contingency strategies to correct delays caused by underestimation of tasks execution
time or fluctuations in the delivered performance of leased public Cloud resources.
Our products categories are wider and we will provide products delivery to all over
Bangladesh with our own delivery men and also we may use efficient courier services
in case of remote areas. During delivery, an agent always will wear a mask and gloves
and carry hand sanitizer for safety purposes. It is very simple and easy as well to use
this web application. The first impor-tant advantage is the ability to quickly find the
necessary medical products, using a search bar. The search menu Algolia option has
been integrated with our plat-form to make the products searching very fast. Price of
Products will be competitive on our platform. Our system will have a huge customer
database and in future we can apply big data analysis and machine learning algorithms
based on customers review to attract more new customers and retain older customers