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- Ambient Dashboard
- Bicycle Power Meter
- Faxview Handheld Fax Machine
- Force Feedback Joystick
- Force Feedback Joystick Controller
- Personal Relaxation Device
- CO-Smoke Detector
- PCI Motion Control Interface
- Phased Array Microphone
- Sports Medicine Testing and Rehabilitation Systems
- Production Test System for Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
- Obsolete Chip Replacement-Quadrature Encoder
- Mil Std Wide Input Range Multi-Phase Power Supply
- Acquisition Engine for Hand-held X-Ray Spectrometer
- RedXDefense iModule
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- DVI Video Development Board
- Brushless DC Motor Driver Retrofit
- Dual Channel High Speed A/D Board for Software Radio- Fingerprint ID System
- 128 Line Phone Switch
- Wastewater Sludge Detector
- PCI 4DI Imaging System
- Lottery Ticket Vending Machine
- Molecular Characterization Detector
- Tera Ohm Meter
- Pharmaceutical Vending Machine
- Blackfin Stamplet Board
- Board Tester
- RF Power Amplifier Predistortion Engine
- Thermal Imaging Camera
- DSP-Based Software Radio
- Steganographic Audio Processor
- Canoe Controller for the Handicapped
- MIT Daedalus Aircraft
- Display Reader for the Blind
- Molecular Characterization Detector
- Micro Ohm Meter
- Tera Ohm Meter
- Lung Impedance Analyzer
- Personal Relaxation Device
- Pharmaceutical Vending Machine
- TCP/IP Engine
- Laser Diode Driver
- Laser System Speed Sensor
- Medical Image Processor
- Miniature USB Camera
- Sine Wave Generator
- Touch Panel and Display Interface
- BigDog Rough-Terrain Quadruped Robot Control Board
- Black-I Landshark Ground Vehicle Robot- Bi-Pedal Research Robot
- Force Feedback Joystick
- Force Feedback Joystick Controller
- Canoe Controller for the Handicapped
- LittleDog Robot
- PCI Motion Control Interface
- Dual Floating Point DSP and FPGA Board for Software Radio
- Acquisition Engine for Hand-held X-Ray Spectrometer
- TCP/IP Engine
- Thermal Imaging Camera
- Laser System Speed Sensor
- Medical Image Processor
- Phased Array Microphone
- RF Power Amplifier Predistortion Engine
- DSP-Based Software Radio
- Blackfin Stamplet Board

Pharmaceutical Vending Machine

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Telepharmacy Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of e-commerce solutions to the outpatient care market. TSI’s products allow medication to be legally remotely dispensed to patients. Other TSI products provide medication access control at hospitals.     

System Overview

Telepharmacy Solutions, Inc. came to Bolton Engineering to design the electronics for their first pharmaceutical dispensing machine, and for all their subsequent dispensing machines. Over a period of eight years, Bolton Engineering designed eight different dispensing controllers, most based on the same scalable design platform, and all command compatible.

The controllers interfaced to host PC’s over multi-drop serial networks or over USB. The host PC’s controlled machine access and performed user verification via access cards or fingerprint ID. The dispensing machine controllers controlled the real-time vend cycle, ran system diagnostics, and implemented an anti-theft alarm system.

Results

  • Developed expandable architecture that has met TSI’s needs through several equipment generations.
  • Systems supported from 10 to 120 vending mechanisms (one per product).
  • All boards were completed on-time and on-budget.
  • All eight boards were designed and implemented perfectly and required no changes after the first layout.

Project Scope

Bolton Engineering wrote the specification, designed communication protocol, designed the schematics, obtained vendor quotes, developed the circuit boards, constructed prototype boards, wrote diagnostic and control software, debugged the system, and supported regulatory certifications.

   
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