Reminder: RFID Tagging for Medication Adherence

Reminder aims to aid people in taking the right medications at the right times. The project creates a mostly unmanned line of communication that will intelligently remind users via smart phone to take their pills. To accomplish this, our design proposes that pharmacies use an RFID communication module to write simple medication usage guidelines to RFID tagged prescription bottles so that patients can scan the tags at home and have their machine assign periodic reminders through a smart phone app. With Raspberry Pis we’ve implemented the RFID reading and writing requirements as well as the database management. Then, using Android Studio, we’ve created an Android compatible app that downloads medication information from the same database to display for the user’s convenience. A finger print scanner addition to the dispensing unit enables the system to track a patient's medication adherence so that notifications can adapt depending on how well the user has been keeping up with their medicine.