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Objective: Robust prototype to allow 2 patients
to have a week’s worth of 6 different pills
automatically dispense on a time-basis with the
scan of a fingerprint.
Customer: Anyone who takes medication on a
time-basis and desires to keep their medication
in a safe and secure location.
Additional Information: Can be located at the
team’s EDGE website at
https://edge.rit.edu/content/P09321/public/Home.
Justin Zagorski (IE) – Project Lead
Rebecca Jaiven (EE) – Lead Engineer
Michael Boquard (CE)
Matthew Jones (ME)
Felix Feliz (ME)
Shuaib Mansoori (EE)
John Veenstra (PJ Solutions - Sponsor
Dan Phillips (EE) – Faculty Guide
Ed Hanzlik (ME) – Faculty Advisor
Background
10% of all hospital and 23% of all nursing home
admissions are due to patients failing to take
prescription medications correctly.
At any given time, regardless of age group, up
to 59% of people taking 5 or more medications are
taking them improperly.
Key Customer Needs/Engineering Specs
o360° Security™ & SmartCartridges™
oLaptop Interface & GUI
oProperly and reliably dispense
medication
oBiometric Access
Electrical Flow Diagram
System Architecture
User Approaches the
dispenser
Medicine cylinder
rolls down the
dispensing ramp
User places finger
on finger print
reader
Correct nitinol latch
is actuated and
medicine falls with
the use of gravity
User takes medicine
Deposit empty
medicine cylinder
into return slot at
the rear of the
dispenser
Design Concept
USB/Power
Input
Empty
Return
Area
Cylinder
Holders
Collapsible
Legs
Dispense
Ramp
GUI
Pharmacist Control
Patient Control
Special Thanks to: TCS Industries Inc.,
Richard Bentley