1. Automated Medication Dispenser
Objective: Robust prototype to allow 2 patients to have a week’s worth of 6 different pills automatically dispense on a time-basis with the scan of a fingerprint.
Customer: Anyone who takes medication on a time-basis and desires to keep their medication in a safe and secure location.
Additional Information: Can be located at the team’s EDGE website at
Justin Zagorski (IE) – Project Lead
Rebecca Jaiven (EE) – Lead Engineer
Michael Boquard (CE)
Matthew Jones (ME)
Felix Feliz (ME)
Shuaib Mansoori (EE)
John Veenstra (PJ Solutions - Sponsor
Dan Phillips (EE) – Faculty Guide
Ed Hanzlik (ME) – Faculty Advisor
User Approaches the dispenser
User places finger on finger print reader
Correct nitinol latch is actuated and medicine falls with the use of gravity
Medicine cylinder rolls down the dispensing ramp
User takes medicine
Deposit empty medicine cylinder into return slot at the rear of the dispenser
Background
10% of all hospital and 23% of all nursing home admissions are due to patients failing to take prescription medications correctly.
At any given time, regardless of age group, up to 59% of people taking 5 or more medications are taking them improperly.
System Architecture
Key Customer Needs/Engineering Specs
360° Security™ & SmartCartridges™
Laptop Interface & GUI
Properly and reliably dispense medication
Biometric Access
Design Concept
USB/Power Input
Empty Return Area
Electrical Flow Diagram
Cylinder Holders
Collapsible Legs
Dispense Ramp
Pharmacist Control
GUI
Patient Control
Special Thanks to: TCS Industries Inc.,
Richard Bentley