High Technology Medicine Pillbox

Muhammad Amirul Hakim, Jumali (2015) High Technology Medicine Pillbox. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

“High Technology Medicine Pillbox” is the solution in order to solve the problem faced by people nowadays who are very busy with their daily activities especially elder people. The compactness of their day may cause the people to forget their important task such as medication time. Prevention is the best way in helping people to stay fit and healthy in their life rather than curing. Hence, this project is the best way in helping them to remember their medication time as long as they keep using it. The design is using the latest technology as it is light and portable to be carried anywhere. This project also connected to the smartphone which will acts as alerting devices. Nowadays, there are many medicine pillboxes available in the market as well as medicine reminders. They come with a variety of design and size in order to attract the users. The pill compartments and design may be convenient and comfortable to be brought outside, but main disadvantage of them are the price which sometimes could be too expensive and not affordable. Other than that, they also do not have any alerting system that connected to the smartphone. Most of the medicine reminders come with an alerting system such as buzzer or LED that will be connected to the pill box. This may lead to the disadvantage as the user sometimes may leave the medicine pillbox. So by having an alerting system in the smartphone, user will no longer worry anymore. In order to come out with the best solution, some research and study had been done about the existing medicine reminder and try to improve the system to make it affordable and user friendly. So, this is where the idea of concept and known as “High Technology Medicine Pillbox”. This project serves and built with an alerting system and pill compartments. These two devices which are pillbox and smartphone will be connected through Bluetooth as the interface.

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