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The paper presents development of a device which could help the oral therapy of drug delivery to patients. The paper focuses on development of a patient friendly drug delivery device, which could automatically deliver the drug into the patient body without his notice. The proposed deice will definitely help the elderly people who very often forget taking their pills on time. In this work, we present the design, simulation and analysis of silicon-based microneedles with piezoelectrically actuated micro?uidic device for transdermal drug delivery (TDD). In the work presented in the paper depicts the use of array of cantilever beams, containing a microfluidic chamber and array of needles for drug storage and delivery. Silicon microneedles are used to pears the superficial skin layer followed by the delivery of the drug. Microneedles deliver the drug into the epidermis without disruption of nerve endings, due to which the patient does not feel any pain during drug delivery using transdermal system. Microneedles are fabricated using MEMS technology employing silicon, metals, polymers. The development of microneedle arrays is an approach which allows drug delivery through skin by improving safety, efficiency, bioavailability. The device developed in this work can deliver drug as per patient requirement.