Medicament Dispenser with User Authentication and Remote Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medicament delivery systems for opioids and other strong medications lack robust control and monitoring, leading to misuse, overdose, and accidental intake, particularly due to lack of self-control, incorrect administration, and unauthorized use, resulting in serious health issues and fatalities.
Innovation Solution
A medicament dispenser with internal storage, a dispensing unit, and a control unit that includes user authentication and communication modules to enable or disable dispensing based on predefined protocols, health data monitoring, and remote server communication, ensuring secure and compliant medication delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional medicament delivery systems are used, then ease of operation is maintained, but reliability and safety deteriorate due to lack of control and monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The dispenser system is divided into distinct functional modules: storage compartment for medicament, control unit with authentication capabilities, communication module for remote server interaction, and dispensing mechanism. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function reliably while maintaining overall system manageability despite increased complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
A communication module acts as an intermediary between the dispenser and a remote server, enabling centralized control and monitoring without requiring direct human intervention at the dispenser. This intermediary layer enhances reliability by allowing remote authorization and tracking while keeping the device interface simple for users.
2Reliability
If user authentication and remote monitoring are implemented, then safety and compliance improve, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automatic authentication and verification processes that occur without requiring users to manually input complex information. The control unit automatically verifies user credentials and communicates with the remote server, allowing patients to simply present themselves for authentication while the system handles the complex verification and compliance checking autonomously.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If dispensing is enabled without control, then ease of operation is maintained, but harmful factors increase due to misuse and overdose
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements preliminary control measures by requiring authentication and obtaining remote authorization before allowing medicament dispensing. The control unit verifies user identity and checks compliance with prescribed regimens before enabling the dispensing mechanism, thereby preventing misuse and overdose before they can occur rather than relying on post-distribution monitoring.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a medicament dispenser (1) for delivering a medicament (9, 53) to a user (2), the medical dispenser (1) comprising one or more internal storages (3, 52) for storing one or more medicaments (9, 53); a dispensing unit (10, 101) configured to access said one or more internal storages (3, 52) and dispense the medicament (9; 53) based on a predefined dispensing protocol (18); a control unit (13) comprising a user recognition unit (12, 19), adapted to collect user authentication data (76); and a communication module (14), configured to send/receive said user authentication data (76) and a delivery control data (16) associated to said predefined dispensing protocol (18) to/from a remote server (15); wherein said control unit 5 (13) is configured to enable/disable said dispensing unit (10, 101) based on said user authentication data (76) and said delivery control data (16). Also disclosed is a medicament re-filling apparatus (32) for the use with a medicament dispenser (1) upon authentication and validation of its user (2) condition.