Abstract
Abuse of prescription medication is a huge problem facing the US. People can develop a dependency while using drugs they acquired lawfully. We propose constructing a single-door medicine cabinet with an integrated load cell to measure how much of a particular medication is being taken each day. This information can be transmitted through the internet to a physician or a pharmacy (for refilling purposes). When given a new prescription, the user will be prompted to give the medication’s name, and the device will associate the additional weight placed in the cabinet with that prescription. Any time it is removed from the cabinet, the change it weight will be measured so that the device can deduce how much medication has been taken. Additional features will allow parents to make sure their children are taking their medicine or enable a password lock on the cabinet.
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