Published February 17, 2019 © GPL3+

Medication Bottle Monitoring

Monitoring pill bottles for usage and temperature to ensure it stays at a good temperature, detect theft/misuse, and aid regular use.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Particle Photon

Android device

Arduino UNO

Velostat

Analog Temperature Sensor

Software apps and online services

Google Flutter

Microsoft Azure

Twilio SMS Messaging API

Particle Build Web IDE

Story

#Hardware Setup

The hardware setup was made to detect when the bottle opened/closed, environmental readings(temperature), and estimate the level of pills remaining in the bottle. To do this we created a force sensor using a sheet of adafruit's Velostat. This material's resistance has an inverse correlation with force applied.

#Data Flow

The software is setup according to this masterpiece of a drawing:

Data flow of our project

Sensor data is logged by our Particle Photon and send to Azure IoT Hub. Our IoT Hub then keeps this data in an Azure database. Our Flutter app is then able to display this data and set alarms in the database through a connected NodeJS server.