Smart pill dispenser for dependent people

Many medical errors are due to the fact that people in charge of patient or elder’s medication have to deal with sorting huge amounts of pills each day. This paper consists on the conception, design and creation of a pillbox prototype intended to solve this deficiency in the medical area as it has the ability of sorting out the pills by itself as well as many other advanced features, with this device being intended to be used by hospitals or retirement homes. For the design of this device open-source based technologies will be used when possible including 3D design software and software IDE, and the prototype will be created using 3D printed plastic parts.Ingeniería en Tecnologías de Telecomunicació