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Most medication reminders record that a beep happened. Ours detects the physical pickup — so when the dashboard says a dose was taken, it means the pills actually left the dispenser. And when they didn’t, you find out in thirty minutes, not at the next visit.
At each scheduled time, the dispenser releases the next slot of the tray and turns on its light. When your parent lifts the pills out, the dispenser detects the pickup and the dashboard records the dose the way it really went: taken on time, taken late, still waiting, or overdue.
That distinction — dispensed versus picked up — is the whole feature. It’s the difference between knowing the machine did its job and knowing your father took his blood-pressure medication.
Doses are scheduled in the app, per medication, with the medications that matter most flagged as critical — those get the loudest treatment when something goes wrong.
If dispensed pills sit untouched for thirty minutes, the dispenser reports the dose overdue and the family gets an alert. The timer runs on the device, not in the cloud — so a missed dose gets caught even if the home internet happens to be down at that moment.
A late pickup afterward is still recorded honestly as a late pickup, and it quiets its own alert. The record always matches what happened, in the order it happened.
Trays jam. Schedules change. A doctor says “stop the evening dose.” When a dose can’t or shouldn’t go out, the family sees it as a blocked dose with a one-tap skip: the tray advances one slot, and the dispenser blinks that slot purple — the do-not-take color — so nobody in the house mistakes a skipped dose for a missed one.
Skips resolve oldest-first, so the app’s record and the physical tray stay in lockstep. No guessing which slot the disk is really on.
When the tray is refilled, a short Fill session in the app records which medication went into which slot. From then on, the dashboard doesn’t say “slot 14 was picked up” — it says “Metoprolol, 8:00 AM — taken.”
The fill planner also tracks where the tray actually is, so the next fill starts from the right slot even after skips and jams.
It’s not a locked medical device. It’s an organizer with a very good memory. A determined person can still open it — the point is that you’ll know.
It doesn’t verify swallowing. Pickup detection tells you the pills left the tray. If ingestion itself is in question, that’s a conversation with a doctor, not a gadget.
It’s not standalone. The dispenser is one device in a household system — it shares the base station, the alert chain, and the same dashboard as motion monitoring and the help button.
The dispenser detects the physical pickup from the tray. The dashboard then shows the dose as it actually happened — on time, late, waiting, or overdue — rather than assuming the alarm was obeyed.
Dispensing and the thirty-minute overdue timer run on the device itself. Events sync to the dashboard when the connection returns, in the right order.
Yes. Caregivers get their own logins and can resolve blocked doses, run skips, and see today’s schedule — every action is recorded with who did it and when.
The tray is filled dose-by-dose, so a single slot can hold everything for one scheduled time. The schedule itself is per-medication, with critical medications flagged for the loudest handling.
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