Pharmassistant recently launched a smart bottle with Bluetooth networking function

Absrtact: A Portuguese start-up company named Pharmassistant has recently launched a smart bottle with Bluetooth networking capabilities. With the help of a mobile phone application, this vial can be used to alert you when you need to take a pill and to track your medication. Considering

A Portuguese start-up company named Pharmassistant has recently launched a smart bottle with Bluetooth networking capabilities. With the help of a mobile phone application, this vial can be used to alert you when you need to take a pill and to track your medication.

Given the need for tele-care and how easy it is to be forgotten in a busy life, this product seems to have a mature market. And before it, there have been similar smart bottles first appeared, the most well-known is glowcap. The latter price is 10 USD and the monthly service cost is 15 dollars.

By contrast, Pharmassistant's bottle is priced at $30, and users can choose to buy a subscription service to remotely monitor other people's medication at a price of 5 USD/month, or 50 USD/year.

Although the price is relatively higher, but pharmassistant products have some obvious advantages. First, their vials do not need to purchase additional data traffic from the operator, just connect to the phone via Bluetooth. In addition, Glowcap needs to install a connection hub at home, and to get a reminder service, the bottle must communicate with the hub. When traveling, Glowcap can store data, but cannot provide services. And since Pharmassistant relies on smartphones, there is no such restriction.

In addition, Pharmassistant can be connected to drug databases to alert and warn about drug interactions. In other words, if you connect all the drugs to the application, it can decide which drugs should not be taken at the same time.

Pharmassistant is Indiegogo to raise money and is not yet up to the final target.