The Need
Our Customer, a leading remote patient monitoring solution company wanted to implement a smart connected solution that integrates multiple ‘smart device’ to monitor patient’s vital parameters, ensuring improved patient’s care by monitoring and managing their medicine intake adherence as per doctor’s prescription.
Impacts Delivered
- Over 30% Improvement in the quality of patient care service delivery for needy patients.
- Significant improvement in patient care through improved medication consistency and immediate attention by healthcare professionals, when needed.
- Consistent and sufficient vital Data availability improved the diagnostic analysis of patients.
Our Solution
- Automatic pill dispensing to ensure adherence to prescriptions
- Integrated vital parameter monitoring devices such as weight scale, blood pressure monitor, glucose meter, and smartwatch via Low Energy Bluetooth.
- Cloud application will manage and process prescription/ billing, alert management, vital parameter history, firmware upgrade
- Mobile app to monitor the patient vitals, alerts and registering smart devices of specific patient
- The solution consists of a cloud-connected pill dispensing unit, multiple devices like weighing scales and other devices that connect to the pill dispenser through Bluetooth, and a patient's mobile app.
- The pill dispenser dispenses pills according to the prescription received from the cloud platform. It can detect the removal of pills and mark their consumption.
- Also, generate alerts for pills not consumed, pills empty, etc. This acts as a gateway for Bluetooth-based devices to connect and send the readings to the cloud platform.
- Mobile App is responsible for registering a Pill Dispenser for a certain Patient, adding other smart devices via Bluetooth, etc. The mobile app will enable monitoring of patient data and alerts
Tools & Technologies
- Azure Cloud based app with MQTT connectivity
- Bluetooth connectivity to mobile apps in Android and iOS platforms
- Embedded Microcontroller based control unit.
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