PillEx

Inspiration

Caregivers find it hard to make sure their patients take their pills correctly and on time. One of our team members works with elderly people and she thought technology might offer a better solution in this case.

What it does

We have build a standalone device which can recognize pills and display it to the user through the onboard display. We have also built an app for caregivers who would get notified instantly when their caretaker took their pills.

How we built it

We have used Raspberry Pie, pure python server and React Native

Challenges we ran into

The processing speed of the Raspberry Pi 0. It took so much time just installing libraries onto that machine

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to finish a neatly done product which can identify pills at a satisfactory level, and has a full integration with the mobile application

What we learned

Never overestimate the power of embedded systems as compared to our personal computers.

What's next for PillEx

We try to develop even a better and more stable version to be able to reach the market and potential customers.

Built With

• 8base
• firebase
• gcp
• google-vision
• google-vision-ai-kit
• javascript
• ocr
• python
• raspberry-pi
• react-native