AutoMed

How it looks like!

Inspiration

It is common-place for mentally and physically capable adults to forget to take their daily vitamins. This becomes even harder to manage for the elderlies and other vulnerable groups with a plethora of health problems to take more than a dozen different pills up to four times during the day. Both group members have people close to them that struggle with this problem, which poses great potential health risks when they miss taking pills, or worse, take the wrong pills during the day.

What it does

Notify the user to take the pill at a given time. The time can be scheduled via android app. We also keep track of whether the pill dispenser has been interact with and update the status in the android app.

How we built it

Using Atmega328p as a main controller. An I2X communication was made to RTC module to get the time. The Atmega also communicates with NODEMCU via UART to listen for any alarm time set by the user. The data from NODEMCU is then saved into the EEPROM of the Atmega. When its time, turn on the buzzer and spin the pill container to the right position. The user and then open the lid or press the button to stop the alarm. Here, we will update the status that the "pill was taken". If no interaction occurs within a set amount of time, the alarm will stop and the status will be registered as "pill not taken".