1. Automated Medicine Dispenser
Riel Fehr Erick Ochoa Steve Wells

2. Facts
Only 51% of the patients treated for hypertension adhere to the treatment.
Between 40% and 70% of patients with depression adhere to antidepressants.
43% of the asthmatic patients take their medications as prescribed and only 28% use prescribed preventative medication.
Between 37% and 83% of patients with HIV and AIDS adhere to antiretroviral agents.

3. What we’re doing about it

4. Hardware Being Used

5. What’s on the FPGA?

6. System Input/output Flow
1  Receive pill cartridge from pharmacy containing “Medi- Code”.
2  Input Medi-Code into system website.
3  Alarm sounds when pills are to be taken. User then presses dispense button to receive pills.
3.5  Alternative to alarm sounding: User wants to leave the house for a few hours, so they press the button to see if current time is within “flex-time”. Dispense if yes, display wait time if no.
4  When cartridge near empty or empty, system displays which cartridge is empty or the pill count when low.

7. Future Add-Ons
Senior care facility, hospitals
At home
And more..

8. Questions???