Drug Dealer

Inspiration

Our inspiration was various stories of people overdosing on medication, specifically toddlers and elderly people who were incapable of taking the right amount of medication without the help of others. Our group felt strongly about this issue, as we all are close to either young children or elderly people.

What it does

This device scans an NFC enabled prescription card, verifies the person's identity via facial recognition, checks its database to see how many pills is in the person's dosage, then dispenses the appropriate dosage of pills. If this product were utilized by pharmacies, the doctor prescribing would have control of the dosage stored in the system.

How we built it

This device was constructed with two Arduinos, a Raspberry Pi, and a relay. We mounted all these, as well as an RFID reader, 3D printed cup and medicine tube, solenoid, and buck converters, to a wooden board for ease of transport. The first Arduino controlled the RFID reader, which scanned an NFC card and sent the appropriate data to the Raspberry Pi. From there, the Raspberry Pi compared the incoming data to its stored data, used AWS services to perform bio-metric authentication and sent the corresponding dosage amount to the second Arduino. This controlled the relay, which controlled the solenoid. It dispensed individual pills by opening and closing for a calibrated number of time.

Challenges we ran into

We spent the majority of the hackathon attempting to use a Dragon board, which we were unable to get working.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we got the entire system working, especially the accurate use of the solenoid.

What we learned

We learned about communication between systems.

What's next for Drug Dealer

We could see this product being used anywhere that prescriptions are used (hospitals, drug stores, retirement communities, etc.

Built With

Submitted to

MangoHacks 2018
- Winner First Place
- Winner Best Hardware Hack
- Winner Express Scripts- Healthcare Solutions Prize

Created by

I worked on the RFID reader using the Arduino. I made "IDs" for our demo that had NFC, then wrote code to send data to the Pi when the card was scanned.

Jake Harrison
I worked on the mechanical and electrical portions of the project, as our hack involved a fair bit of hardware. I brought a 3D printer, which I used to fabricate models made-to-order using Solidworks.

Cody Clemons
I worked on integrating the separate parts together, and directly controlling the mechanism that dispenses the pills. I assisted our team in programming each part and fixed broken code in both Arduino C and Python, plus the scrapped NodeJS script on the DragonBoard.
Controlled the AWS integration

Kyle Stead
I can code.
I worked on the code that allowed the communication between the different components of the system. The primary function of my code was to convert NFC IDs to user IDs to output persciptions thus telling the solenoid how long to stay open.

Gabriella Oye

Updates

Gabriella Oye posted an update — Feb 07, 2018 03:18 PM EST

Our team plans to evolve Drug Dealer to the flawless system we originally envisioned. Multiple dispensers for varying medication, more secure identification, and wireless communication with it's users are all ideas the team has suggested. We plan on developing our healthcare device into something beyond our original capabilities. We hope out project will go on to help make peoples lives easier, safer, and healthier.

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Jake Harrison started this project — Feb 04, 2018 12:33 AM EST

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