System for ensuring patient takes his or her medicine, uses transmitter coupled to sensor to send message to receiver if no medicine packaging is inside vessel normally containing it

摘要

A transmitter (10) coupled to a sensor is used to send a message to a receiver (12) if no medicine packaging (16) is detected inside the vessel (14) normally containing it. A system for controlling the taking of medicine by a patient comprises a sensor unit incorporated into the vessel containing the packaged unit doses of the medicine, and used to detect whether the packaging is inside the vessel or not. A transmitter coupled to the sensor is used to send a message to a receiver if no packaging is detected inside the vessel.