1. Pill Enclosure with Notification and Illuminance Sensors James Barfield Andrew Dance Ben Jacobson Anthony Mucciolo School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2. Project Overview Pillbox with pill detection and alarm Market for elderly, frequent medication users Development costs < $30,000 Final product cost under $70 per unit James

3. Design Objectives Accurate 24-hour clock Time-adjustable alarm Audible and visual notifications User interface Dosage detection (LED/photodiode) Pill compartment indicator (LED) James

4. Design Approach – Housing Opaque plastic Seven sections for pills Cupped compartment Reflective top Four pushbuttons Ben

5. Design Approach - Electronics Infrared LED, Photodiode, Band pass filter LCD screen to display messages and alert LEDs to indicate the day’s compartment Buzzer for audible alarm Microcontroller implementation Ben

6. System Level Schematic Ben

7. Program Flowchart Anthony

8. Demonstration Plan Accuracy of Alarm/Clock All alarm alerts (LCD, LED, and buzzer) function properly Alarms can be stopped Pill removal detected Alarms reactivate if pills aren’t removed Anthony

9. Design Obstacles PIC programming Box manufacturing PCB design Anthony

10. Current Status Programming boards built for PIC PIC programming divided into modules CAD drawings of box finished Anthony

11. Cost Analysis - Development Labor HoursLabor CostPartsTotal Cost Engineer Design Meetings120$6,000.00 Construction & Testing Programming120$6,000.00$100.00$6,100.00 Building100$5,000.00$39.44$5,039.44 Testing120$6,000.00$ -$6,000.00 Total Labor460$23,000.00 Total Parts Cost$139.44 Total Overhead$5,750.00 Project Total$28,889.44 Andrew

12. Cost Analysis - Device QuantityCost Per UnitTotal Cost LCD screen1$6.00 Photodiode7$3.30$23.10 PIC1$2.08 LEDs14$0.59$8.26 Enclosure$12.14 Total Cost$51.58 Andrew

13. Project Milestones Blink an LED Detect a pill with the LED-photodiode pair Send messages to LCD Confirm timer/alarm accuracy Andrew

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