Medication adherence by using a hybrid automatic reminder machine

Abstract

This paper proposes a design of a medication reminder machine, including both the pill and the continuous medical tablet/powder bag reminder modules. The pill module uses MCU with software to control the LED and the buzzer to remind the user according to a specific schedule which has been inputted. The continuous medical tablet/powder bag module uses a MCU with software to control a motor to dispense the medicine bag one by one. In addition, this design uses a Bluetooth bracelet to cooperate with the reminder machine. The bracelet will sound and flash to remind the user to take pills or medicine powder from a specific bag.