Since medication taking is such a routine and mundane behavior, self-monitoring of medication taking is an onerous and difficult task. In order to manage the task more effectively and efficiently, I developed a sensor- augmented cup, which called SmartCup.

This cup consists of a tilt sensor that can detect if the cup is shaking and an implemented OLED display to notify medication alarms. A central server manages a user’s medication schedule, and sends an alarm signal to the SmartCup. Then the SmartCup keeps sensing its shaking status to recognize user’s intake motion.