An improved smart medicine pill box system

• Main Authors: Abad, Maria Patricia J., Gonzales, Marc Angelo Caesar L., Yparraguirre, Jantroy Marshall C., Zalamea, Mikiah Matthew T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; Embedded computer systems; Computer Sciences; Systems Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_comtech/8; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=etdb_comtech
• Institution: De La Salle University

Medicine non-adherence has become a major factor in the failure of medical treatments. Numerous solutions have been proposed to increase adherence between patients and the regimens. These include electronic aids, such as text messages, reminders and smart medicine pill boxes. Chan, Chua and Ramin have developed a smart medicine pill box which provides reminders and allows scheduling using an Android mobile application, but problems arose in terms of its timekeeping and ability to allow third-party applications from accessing the smart medicine pill box. This led the researchers of this study to improve and implement fixes based on the previous work of Chan et. al through a revised design and implementation of middleware. The key results of the experiment were improving the timekeeping, modularity and including a REST API. However, there were drawbacks that include the speed of the motor, the drop system, and the reminder module for the app. The researchers successfully augmented the previously designed Smart Medicine Pill Box and uncovered new areas which could be further improved.