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Team IOT Group 6: Steven Rapp, Graham Willis

Published November 22, 2019 © GPL3+

MEGR 3171 Pill Reminder

Two Argons use a motion sensor to detect motion, flash a led, and send you a text message thanking you for taking your pills.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Solderless Breadboard Half Size

Particle Argon

Jumper wires (generic)

LED (generic)

Resistor 220 ohm

pill holder

PIR Motion Sensor (generic)

ESD Tape, Antistatic

Software apps and online services

Particle Build Web IDE

IFFFT

Google Sheets

fritzing

Story

STORY

Have you ever forgotten to take your daily pill? What if you had something that reminded you to make sure you have taken your pill every morning. That is where our device comes in. Every time you open your weekly pill holder, a text message is sent to your phone thanking you for taking your pill. This can be used by anyone that needs to be reminded of this important, but overlooked part of the day.

HOW IT WORKS

Using a PIR motion sensor attached in the hub of the pill holder. When this sensor is tripped, the particle attached to the sensor publishes the event called MotionDetected. The second particle subscribes to this event leading to a green light flashing on and off. Utilizing IFTTT, two applets were created to read these published events to send a text message, and add a new row to the excel sheet.

1 / 4 • Particle Layout of Sensor Diagram

Example of Data Set

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZSSJ5i5VA8BGomBAhLgPlOonRZMQmfxYqwxY_z9TZRY/edit?usp=sharing

The link above contains the google sheets document where the data is stored.

Video showing Function of Project

Code

int led = D7;

void setup() {

pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(led, LOW);

Particle.subscribe("MotionDetected", myHandler, MY_DEVICES);

}

void myHandler(const char *event, const char *data)
{
    
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,LOW);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,LOW);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,LOW);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,LOW);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,LOW);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,HIGH);
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led,LOW);
}

void loop() {

}

Credits

Steven Rapp

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Graham Willis

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MEGR 3171 Pill Reminder