iPill – now swallow nanotechnology!

-Arvind Rawat

http://www.research.philips.com/newscenter/backgrounders/081111-ipill.html

How about a pill equipped with microprocessor, power supply, medicine reservoir and pump, and a radio so that it can accurately determine its position in the digestive tract (yes, you actually swallow this!) to deliver drugs precisely where they're needed, reducing dosage strength and side effects. The good news for technophobes is that it is still not commercially available.

Use Case: Deliver Medicine

Primary Actor: Patient

The patient swallows the electronic pill and it enters her digestive tract. Continuous Ph measurements help to determine the location of the pill in the gut and information is transmitted through radio frequency transceiver. When the target Ph level is reached, localized drug delivery is performed with help of iPill’s internal pump and microprocessor control.

Standards:

No explicit standards are mentioned but the pill can interact with outside world with help of RF wireless transceiver