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22 Programmable Pill Dispenser
 Iskandar Aripov
Matthew Colletti
 Rebecca Chen design_document0.pdf
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Group Members:
Chris Kalebich - kalebch2
Matt Colletti - mccolle2

The PROBLEM we are going to solve is sorting and remembering when to take medication.

Our PLAN is to design and create a machine that features the ability to hold and accurately dispense (one pill per dose with no room for error) entire bottles of medication, and also a user interface to properly program the user’s appropriate medication schedule. This project will utilize an LCD display, buttons, and an alarm for user interface; a special housing and motors to electro-mechanically sort and dispense; and most importantly, a microcontroller to handle the programming and automation of the scheduled dosage! Our block diagram in writing features a power source (with added circuitry) supplying our microcontroller and PCB, UI peripherals, and automation motors, and the microcontroller, which communicates bi-directionally with the UI and uni-directionally with the motors. Excitingly, this project will result in the creation of a product that is not currently available to the public.

Our MOTIVATION is to help the elderly, disabled, and anyone else who takes medication sort and remember when to take their doses! Current offerings of mildly similar products require manual sorting of pills into individual daily groupings with or without alarms for when to take them. The shortcoming of this is if one is to take the pills at different times during the day they have to have multiple pill sorters for each time they need to take each pill or they have to pile them all into one slot and then go back and double check when to take what. All of this can lead to confusion for elderly or sick patients. Our design will take the complexity out of this process. One simply has to have the machine programmed correctly the first time, and it will dispense the medication in the proper dosage at the proper time each day. As a result, relatives and doctors alike can relax knowing that their patients are being properly medicated each day.

BusPlan

Aashish Kapur, Connor Lake, Scott Liu

BusPlan

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# People

Scott Liu - sliu125

Connor Lake - crlake2

Aashish Kapur - askapur2

# Problem

Buses are scheduled inefficiently. Traditionally buses are scheduled in 10-30 minute intervals with no regard the the actual load of people at any given stop at a given time. This results in some buses being packed, and others empty.

# Solution Overview

Introducing the _BusPlan_: A network of smart detectors that actively survey the amount of people waiting at a bus stop to determine the ideal amount of buses at any given time and location.

To technically achieve this, the device will use a wifi chip to listen for probe requests from nearby wifi-devices (we assume to be closely correlated with the number of people). It will use a radio chip to mesh network with other nearby devices at other bus stops. For power the device will use a solar cell and Li-Ion battery.

With the existing mesh network, we also are considering hosting wifi at each deployed location. This might include media, advertisements, localized wifi (restricted to bus stops), weather forecasts, and much more.

# Solution Components

## Wifi Chip

- esp8266 to wake periodically and listen for wifi probe requests.

## Radio chip

- NRF24L01 chip to connect to nearby devices and send/receive data.

## Microcontroller

- Microcontroller (Atmel atmega328) to control the RF chip and the wifi chip. It also manages the caching and sending of data. After further research we may not need this microcontroller. We will attempt to use just the ens86606 chip and if we cannot successfully use the SPI interface, we will use the atmega as a middleman.

## Power Subsystem

- Solar panel that will convert solar power to electrical power

- Power regulator chip in charge of taking the power from the solar panel and charging a small battery with it

- Small Li-Ion battery to act as a buffer for shady moments and rainy days

## Software and Server

- Backend api to receive and store data in mongodb or mysql database

- Data visualization frontend

- Machine learning predictions (using LSTM model)

# Criteria for Success

- Successfully collect an accurate measurement of number of people at bus stops

- Use data to determine optimized bus deployment schedules.

- Use data to provide useful visualizations.

# Ethics and Safety

It is important to take into consideration the privacy aspect of users when collecting unique device tokens. We will make sure to follow the existing ethics guidelines established by IEEE and ACM.

There are several potential issues that might arise under very specific conditions: High temperature and harsh environment factors may make the Li-Ion batteries explode. Rainy or moist environments may lead to short-circuiting of the device.

We plan to address all these issues upon our project proposal.

# Competitors

https://www.accuware.com/products/locate-wifi-devices/

Accuware currently has a device that helps locate wifi devices. However our devices will be tailored for bus stops and the data will be formatted in a the most productive ways from the perspective of bus companies.