Our project aims to create smart medicine cabinet that helps the senior citizens take their
medications in the right time and the right dose. Often a senior citizen will keep all their
medications in the same place, and when it’s time to take a pill there’s a high possibility
that they will take the wrong one or even mix the dose. This problem is more serious in
our society since most of 70-80 citizens are incapable of reading. Even if the senior
citizen has a caretaker, at one point they would have to leave for an hour or maybe a day,
and in this case there’s nothing to guarantee that the medication is taken in the right time
or dose. SMC can fix all of the previous problems.
The most important aspect of our project is providing a smart cabinet that can know the
exact time and dose for each medication in it. The cabinet will have a number of
separated sections, each one for a different medication. With each section labeled
uniquely, the user can set a time and dose for each pill. When the time for a certain
medication has come, SMC will rotate its sections and push the right number of pills out
of a small window in the cabinet. Afterward, a light and sound alarm will be enable for
10 minutes. If the pills were not taken after that time, SMC will push them back in their
section then create an ‘untaken pill’ alarm for the caretaker to see later on.
The main objective of the project would be creating useful tool to help keeping the
process of taken needed medications as safe as possible.
In this project, we will have to build a user friendly cabinet. This design will have to
include many sections with motors to rotate the sections and others to push the right
amount of pills. The window in the cabinet will have sensors to detect if the pill was
taken or not. In addition to that we could either connect SMC with a smartphone app to
give the user the tool to set the time and dose for each medication or we could connect it
with LCD and keyboard.