The intelligent pill box — Design and implementation

Taiwan is stepping into the aging society. Most of the elders have multiple chronic illnesses, and they use drugs to stabilize their health status. Pharmacists Association urged the family should be more concerned on medication safety of the elders. Thus, this paper designs an intelligent pill box and its back-end monitoring system. The implemented pill box can remind the elders to take medicine in time and can inform the families remotely when the elders take the medicine. The safety design of this pill box can prevent the drugs abusing. The caregivers can easily schedule the time for the elders to take medicine.