Introduction: Study and Preperation

Study and Preparation for the project 

This entire week has been used to plan our course of work throughout the next couple of weeks. We have completed drafting the design proposal for our project. The proposal describes in detail the purpose of our project, the different tools and methods that will be employed in our project, the  roles of each of the team members, a gantt chart the describes the tasks assigned to each week and the time allotted to complete them and last but not least the budget of our project.

Project Theme: The aim of this project is to create an app that can be used together with a device in order to help people take their medication on time. The app is integrated into a system comprising of a pill and either an electronic bracelet or necklace. The other details are included in the design proposal.

Pill case: An image of a normal pill case

Inspiration of the project by Aakankschit: The inspiration for this project came from my grandmother who found it difficult to take all her pills due to a weak memory in old age. The pill case would be designed to remind her to take her pills on time and alert the caretaker that she has taken her pills for that day.

Take your pills!

Tools used: Since we are dealing with the development of an app mainly for android systems. Skills in programming using the language JAVA are essential. The program that we will employ in this project to create our application will be the program known as android studio. It is available for free download on the internet. One of the requirements to use this software is that JAVA version 7 or greater must already be installed on your system. If you are new to programming with JAVA, its highly recommended to watch a couple of tutorials in order to maximize your efficiency while creating the app.

Android Studio: The main tool that will be employed in creating this app.

Research: We are running patent searches throughout this project. These searches can be very helpful in determining the originality of ideas or trying to understand similar concepts applied in different projects. So far we have zoomed in on eight patents which have captured our interest. We have used Drexel Libraries website to find different resources such as the engineering village etc. in order to gain easy access to different research papers pertaining to the theme of our project. In addition with the assistance of Engineering Librarian Mr. Jay Bhatt we have learned the procedure to patent search using advanced google search to find different patents and identify them and learn their nomenclature.

This is the webpage for google's advanced patent search

Reference:
Drexel Libraries: https://www.library.drexel.edu/