Smart home medication reminder system

摘要

The reality is that many of us will need assistance in our later years. In some cases, people need nothing more than occasional visits from a home nurse, some light housekeeping, meals on wheels, and visitors willing to talk and notify about pills. While there is a movement to make aging at home possible for more people, it is not always an option. Dementia and other illnesses can require around the clock medical care and monitoring, things often more easily given in a professional facility than at home. On the other end, increasing number of smart systems opens area where medical treatment can be utilized to completely new level. In this paper we show a working solution how a smart home can be utilized to help people with medication related remainders. Proposed flow starts when a new medication prescription is taken from the doctor. eHealth system generates QR code which is then delivered as part of prescription, holding set of information, such as medications treatment, duration, next visit and similar. This set of information is used by the expert system which handles all the notifications generated by prescription. In used system, three types of notifications are used, smart phone notifications, home voice and video notifications.