Overview
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The Smart Medicine Box is designed to ensure consistent medicine intake by patients. Using a dedicated smartphone app, users can setup their phones to display reminders, manage their personal medication status, and much more.
This reference design features the embedded RL78/G13 MCU which communicates with an RL78/G1D Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE) module via UART. The ISL9120 high-efficiency buck-boost switching regulator further enhances power control efficiency.
Features
- Enables users to record pill taking activities
- Generates a notification sound and displays a bright light in certain pill boxes, so that the patient will know the specific number of boxes from which they should take out medicine
- The system can determine if the patient has taken pills out of the box via a recording key
- Transmits a record of pills taken back to a mobile application
- Users can set a notification time according to a message from the mobile application
- Includes a low battery voltage alert
- Displays real-time data on a 4-digit 7-segment LED
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Ensure consistent and timely intake of medicine by patients with the Smart Medicine Box with BLE reference design featuring the Renesas RL78/G13 and RL78/G1D microcontrollers.