ReliaPill

The biggest fear with self-medicating is taking the wrong medication and in the wrong dosage. Not anymore.

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Inspiration

Countless elderly or disabled patients are unable to take their proper medication and correct doses. Pill bottles are difficult to open and handle for those physically-limited in their motion, and remembering to take a dose can be very hard as well. Relia-Pill seeks to alleviate some of this burden by scheduling, reminding, keeping track of, and dispensing a patient's medicine.

What it does

Relia-Pill uses an Android app to set up a medication schedule. Users are able to input different types of medicines, prescribed doses, and set up times to take each medicine. Twilio services will both text you if a dose is coming up soon, and even call you with information on which medications needs to be refilled. For increased ease, users can also utilize an Alexa app to determine what quantities remain of each medication, and even command the pill holder to release the proper dose.

How we built it

The hardware was CADed in Solidworks and printed through several iterations. The Alexa app, Twilio interface, and backend were written in Python to be run off a Raspberry Pi. Stepper motor control is done through a connected arduno.

Challenges we ran into

3D print quality has been a battle from the start. While we had a much larger, more packaged design initially, printer capability forced us to decrease the size. Additionally, poor print quality has led to inefficiency when turning the index for the pills, and thus has made it unreliable.

What's next for Relia-Pill

Scaling for open source printing of the pill dispenser!

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