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A Smart Drug/Medicine Pack for u-Medication Monitoring

유비쿼터스 투약 감시를 위한 스마트 투약 팩

  • 박장환 (충주대학교 정보제어공학과) ;
  • 이태수 (충북대학교 의과대학 의공학교실) ;
  • 김영철 (충북대학교 전기전자컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2006.01.01

Abstract

As a pervasive healthcare application to help medication of elderly patients, the smart compliance monitors have been recently proposed. In this paper, we present a new smart drug/medicine pack (SDP) for ubiquitous medication monitoring, for which the packaging is either paper packet or blister pack. This ubiquitous compliance monitor is composed of several SDPs and a Bluetooth equipped PDA phone. The SDP is a wireless module that monitors the medication consumption unobtrusively by transmitting the sensed data of 'drug removal' events to the medical center and by reminding patients when they take a dose on their mobile phone. The communication between SDP modules and PDA is realized via Bluetooth. The PDA is basically embedded to indicate the medication record and to alert every prescribed medication time during treatment. Experimental results show that the proposed system works exactly when the SDPs are far within about 2 [m] from PDA.

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