1Intelligent Packaging and Intelligent Medicine
Box for Medication Management towards theInternet-of-Things
Zhibo Pang*, Junzhe Tian**, Qiang Chen***Corporate Research, ABB AB, Västerås, Sweden** ICT School, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
pang.zhibo@se.abb.com, {junzhe, qiangch}@kth.se

Abstract—The medication noncompliance problem has caused serious threat to public health as well as huge financial waste would wide.
The emerging pervasive healthcare enabled by the Internet-of-Things offers promising solutions. In addition, an in-home healthcare
station (IHHS) is needed to meet the rapidly increasing demands for daily monitoring and on-site diagnosis and prognosis. In this paper,a pervasive and preventive medication management solution is proposed based on intelligent and interactive packaging (I2Pack) andintelligent medicine box (iMedBox). The intelligent pharmaceutical packaging is sealed by the Controlled Delamination Material (CDM)
and controlled by wireless communication. Various vital parameters can also be collected by wearable biomedical sensors through thewireless link. On-site diagnosis and prognosis of these vital parameters are supported by the high performance architecture. Additionally,friendly user interface is emphasized to ease the operation for the elderly, disabled, and patients. A prototyping system of the I2Pack andiMedBox is implemented and verified by field trials.
Index Terms—Medication Management; Internet-of-Things (IoT); In-Home Healthcare Station (IHHS); Wireless Sensor Network(WSN); Controlled Delamination Material (CDM); Radio Frequency Identification (RFID);
Zhibo Pang received B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2002, MBA in Innovation andGrowth from University of Turku, Turku, Finland, in 2012, and PhD in Electronic and Computer Systems from the Royal Institute ofTechnology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013.
He is a research scientist at ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden. Before joined ABB, he worked as technical manager insemiconductor industry, designing baseband and application processors and turn-key solutions for mobile smart devices. He has 15 patents
and over 30 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. He was awarded the National Great Invention Award by theMinistry of Information Industry of China in 2005, won the First Place Prize of the RFID Nordic EXPO in 2008 and Outstanding Pap erAwards in ICACT2013. His current research interests include the Internet-of-Things, wireless sensor network, industrial communication,
real time embedded system, enterprise information systems, automation networks, and multicore system-on-chip and network-on-chip. He
also works on the business-technology joint research such as business model design, value chain formulation, strategy, and entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship.

Junzhe Tian received B.Eng. degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT),Beijing, China, in 2010, M.Sc. degree in System-on-Chip Design from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013.
After graduate, he became a Software developer at Excosoft AB Stockholm, Sweden. Currently he is working on design and implementationof Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) and Document Type Definition (DTD) in publishing industry.

Qiang Chen received the Ph.D. degree in electronics from Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, in 1993.
He was with Ericsson Microelectronics, Stockholm, Sweden, from 1994 to 2002 and became an Ericsson Expert in 2001. He joined
Infineon Technology Sweden, Stockholm, in 2003 as a Principal. He has been at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, as a SeniorResearch Fellow and Project Leader with the Department of Electronic Systems since 2008. He is a Senior Research Scientist with theDepartment of Electronic Systems and iPack VINN Excellence Center, School of Information and Communication Technology, RoyalInstitute of Technology. He has published more than 40 international reviewed scientific papers. His current research interests include
electronic devices and circuits, wireless sensor network and sensor technology, and printed electronics.