Inspiration
The "Aging in Place" Challenge at the 2017 NIU Huskie Hack
What it does
It allows a user to send a reminder to take his or her medicine. This is a proof-of-concept. In the future, this can be built out to send messages on a pre-set schedule based on a database holding patient names, medications, dosages, and time-of-day for each dosage.
How we built it
We used a tool called Twilio which handles text messaging for cloud applications.
Challenges we ran into
While we knew we wanted to use Twilio, which language we used changed. At first we attempted Python, but could not clear a port that was already being used. Then we ran the used the same logic but this time in Node.js which was a much cleaner implementation.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We remember the sense of accomplishment seeing that first text message!
What we learned
Progress isn't always pretty, but with enough persistence and inquisitiveness you can accomplish a lot.
What's next for Text-Reminder-App
Up Next would be to add database or .csv functionality so that a pre-set schedule of reminders can be executed without direct human input.
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