Medix

Pill bottle 1 detected by the phone screen
Plastic bottle covered with foil, making the whole setup a mini-capacitor
The UI of our application
Pill bottle 2 detected by the phone screen
That's me trying out the application blindfolded

Inspiration

Millions of deaths can be prevented just by making sure the right drug is consumed and preventing the administration of the wrong medicine. Not everyone can be monitored, assisted, or afford expensive drug administration systems currently present in the market. Here MediX comes into play. Detect the right medicine and dosage using your smartphone screen. No special equipment needed. Promise. Humans are increasingly becoming more dependent on medicines, which is now considered crucial for a healthy and long life. According to a study performed at the University of College London, a third of the elderly population (age 65 and older) is in danger of premature death due to misunderstanding medicine labels. A study of low-income patients carried out at Northwestern University showed that nearly half of even visually able participants misinterpreted at least 1 out of 5 prescriptions labels presented. With disparate education and literacy levels across the world, Medix has the potential to improve the lives of billions of people. We used UI Path to Order Medicines Automatically

What it does

Helps detect pill bottle uniquely just by placing the pill bottle on the phone screen. It can be programmed with dosages, remaining pills, to know what dosage to take and also automatically orders the medicine if they're running out.

How I built it

We developed pill containers that can create touchpoints on the screen of mobile phones. The number of touchpoints and distance between touchpoints creates patterns on the touchscreen which are decoded by the mobile device. Hence, we get to know which pill container is placed on the screen, the number of tablets remaining in the container and tablets to be taken on that particular day.

Challenges I ran into

-Trying to detect prescription pill bottles without using Bluetooth, NFC, or RFID. -Trying to implement a rotation detector which we did not use finally.