Design and development of a 3D Printed IoT portable Pillbox for continuous medication adherence

Abstract

Limited patients’ medication adherence can lead to substantial health and economic implications. We propose a portable small sized pillbox, aiming to improve patients’ adherence during their indoor and outdoor activities. Through a web application, physicians can make real-time adjustments to patient’s medication schedule which is, subsequently, saved in a database on a remote server. The pillbox can establish a secured communication with the server and obtain the updated medication schedule. Unlike available bulky devices used to improve medication adherence, the proposed pillbox offers improved portability that enables continuous use, while also providing temperature and humidity measurements to assess medication storage conditions that are important especially for outdoor use.