PharmAssist

Global Runner-Up in AWS Challenge! WOOOHOOO!

My friends and I built a novel Android application that assists users in keeping track of medicines and their prescribed dosages, using unique labels.

I helped in integrating a video chat application for detecting human pulse and heart-rate from video feed, and present that information to doctors contacting patients.

There was a paper presented at CVPR 2013, that interested us, which did the exact same thing!

We used a Java implementation of the same, using Fast Fourier Transforms and simple Image Processing to get the Systolic and Diastolic Pressure from a video feed of a person’s face!

I also helped in implementing functions on an Amazon Echo dot. THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! All you would have to do is simply say, “Alexa, open PharmAssist,” and ask “How many pills do I need to take today?”

Here is a prototype of the project we demo-ed!

What’s the aim of this application?

We all know how difficult it is to remember which medicines we have to take, at which intervals. This problem poses a challenge, mainly for senior citizens. This app was built mainly to alleviate this issue.

We also enabled Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text systems in our Android Application to make the user experience hassle-free for older users!

What this ended up becoming

This emerged the winner in the Indian Subcontinent in AngelHack’s Virtual Hackathon, and we were also invited to AngelHack’s Start-Up accelerator program!

It also emerged the Global Runner-Up in an AWS Challenge in the same hackathon! My friends and I won a ton of AWS goodies!