Abstract

Accurately accounting for medication use is important for the efficacy and safety of patients and family members. Monitoring is also important for medication adherence. This work investigates identification of persons taking medication using a sensor-equipped pill bottle. The bottle is equipped with inertial and switch sensors in both the cap and body, making the added hardware unobtrusive, low-cost, and wireless. Our system uses inertial data to build a patient discrimination model using classification techniques. We evaluated the system using 16 subjects. Our results show that using binary Support Vector Machine (SVM), the system can discriminate one patient among 16 subjects with 94% accuracy, and has a 93% using a single sensor. Identifying the exact person in a set of 3 subjects has an accuracy higher than 91%.

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