• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.571-578
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• 2015

Even though DOT (Directly Observed Treatment) is the most definite method for the patients who need a long-term medication, its implementation is almost impossible considering the manpower and economic cost for it. The smart medication management and monitoring system that has appeared as an alternative requires a device for its implementation. In this paper, we propose so-called a smart pillbox for the smart medication management and monitoring system and the multi-user authentication scheme for sharing the smart pillbox among the patients. Through the smart pillbox and the multi-user authentication scheme, it is expected that the recovery rate would be raised by enabling the patients to take medicine in both timely and correct manner.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.611-617
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• 2013

Although tuberculosis can be recovered if patients take medicine consistently, Korea shows significantly high rate in terms of incident rate and death rate of the tuberculosis patients. Considering such a situation, this paper has developed a smart pillbox that facilitates for patients requiring a long-term administration to take medicine in a regular and consistent manner. The developed smart pillbox is equipped with a load cell that can measure the weight in unit of 0.1g so that it can determine whether or not the medicine is dispensed out of itself. In addition, a software has been developed to determine the status of patient's taking medicine based on the measurement result.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1213-1219
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• 2012

As Korea is expected to enter an aging society in near future, the number of patients who need a long-term prescribtion is expected to increase as well. In particular, Korea shows the highest in both the incident rate and the death rate among OECD member nations. The current situation requires more strict monitoring and management for patients' taking medicine, there are a few practical problems such as personnel expenses. Recently the concept of directly observed treatment (DOT) that is based on the IT technologies has been introduced. This paper, therefore, proposes a digital DOT system with a smart pillbox and drives key requirements for the smart pillbox that plays an important and essential role in the proposed digital DOT system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1391-1397
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• 2013

As Korea is expected to enter an aging society in near future, the number of patients who need a long-term prescription is expected to increase as well. In particular, Korea shows the highest in both the incident rate and the death rate among OECD member nations. The current situation requires more strict monitoring and management for patients' taking medicine, there are a few practical problems such as personnel expenses. In order to realize the efficient management of medicine administration, this paper proposes a smart pillbox that is developed based on IT technologies. Through the experiments in which actual patients participate, it is proved that the smart pillbox is beneficial to the patients taking medicine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.309-312
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 약 관리를 효율적으로 할 수 있는 IoT 기반의 스마트 약상자를 개발하였다. 약을 정기적으로 먹어야 하는 사용자에 대해 약 복용 현황 및 남아 있는 약의 상황 등을 모니터링 하여 효과적으로 관리할 수 있다. 이를 위해 약을 보관할 수 있는 상자를 3D 프린터를 이용하여 제작하였으며, 사용자의 복약 현황을 나타내주는 LCD를 전면에 배치했다. 또한, 약상자 내부에 있는 서보모터를 활용하여 정해진 복용 시간에 정해진 양만큼의 약을 제공할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안하는 스마트 약상자를 이용하여 사용자의 복약을 효율적으로 관리할 수 있으며 복약 순응도를 높이고 약물의 오남용을 막는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.