SafeScripts - a connected health hackathon project
Purpose:
One-day hackathon project, to select and build an idea as a team
Idea for a connected health solution - a smart pillbox and a mobile application with two versions: one for the user and one for a caretaker (parent, partner, or healthcare professional).
Target audience: users who desire/need robust notification and reminders for taking medications (children or forgetful users), sharing dosage events with caretakers at the same time. It also is an extra security feature to see the status for any unauthorized or undesirable opening of the pillbox.
Approach:
Team assembled in the morning and presented our results that evening.
Split responsibilities between mobile app front end development, back end and API development, wireframing, and physical prototyping.
Apple iOS developer for the front end development, Node.js and Postman for back end and API development.
Started with paper UX wireframing and then digitized it in Google Slides to give to front end.
Prototyped physical components to illustrate the design of the smart pillbox.
Created cognitive walk through, collaborated on pen/paper UI wireframes with another teammate
Assisted microcontroller programming (wifi-enabled Phonon microcontroller) to communicate with the server commands.
Prototyped breadboard/soldered board between microcontroller, LEDs and magnetic switches for the lid prompts and switch status.
Final product overview:
We had a semi-working prototype at the end of the project and had some fun doing it!
The pillbox was a connected device that had an LED and lid switch for each pillbox container. The LED was to prompt the user to open that particular section and the lid switch indicated the current and previous status. The mobile app for the user allowed for scheduling and simple programming for the the pillbox, so that it knew which container to trigger and when. The lid status would also remind the user they had already taken their medications and when. The mobile app version of the caretaker would also show this status. The mobile app would also deliver push notifications to remind when to take medication.