The challenge to guarantee healthy aging has become a major social concern. Due to the cognitive deficits related to age, hectic daily activities, and multiple medications prescriptions, the elders often tend to forget their pills intakes. This has a colossal impact on their health and life. Moreover, the recent pandemic of COVID-19 has accentuated the importance to provide independent and autonomous living for the elderly. This paper presents a pill management system based on IoT intended for aged individuals. The proposed system is a smart pill dispenser associated with a mobile application. The main actors of the system are the patient, the doctor, the pharmacist, and the patient's caregiver and/or relative, each having restricted access to the system via specific credentials. The prescription is directly edited on the mobile application by the doctor and the scheduling and filling of the pillbox is done wirelessly by the pharmacist. The reminding of medications intakes in this system is done gradually to help the patient adhere to his/her prescription. First, it notifies the patient about his/her scheduled pill by a mobile notification then via the pill dispenser using LCD, LED, and buzzer. The implemented system also allows the doctor and caregiver to keep a tab of the patient's intakes. Furthermore, the pill dispenser is featured with a locking mechanism to ensure medication dosage control and prevent drugs abuse. Experiments show that the proposed system is appreciated by the elderly and encourages them to take their pills successfully and safely without causing any disturbance.Povzetek: Zaradi kognitivnih omejitev, povezanih s starostjo, napornih dnevnih dejavnosti in množice predpisanih zdravil, starejši pogosto pozabijo vzeti predpisana zdravila. Ta članek predstavlja sistem za upravljanje jemanja zdravil, ki temelji na internetu stvari in je namenjen starejšim posameznikom. Predlagani sistem sestoji iz pametnega razdeljevalnika zdravil, ki je povezan z mobilno aplikacijo. Poleg pomoči pri pravilnem jemanju zdravil sistem omogoča tudi nadzor jemanja zdravil s strani svojcev, zdravnikov in negovalcev.

Abstract:Background: The virtual reality environments around the world are increasingly used in many areas, including education, where they offer new learning opportunities. This technology (virtual reality) is used as an information resource or as an educational tool where the student takes an active part in learning by interacting with the device. For the past ten years or so, virtual environments have been used in teaching, especially in history and science. Methods: Our work focuses on the educational potential offered by this technology at the Algerian University, and for this we have experimented virtual reality applications intended for the education of medicine using a virtual reality helmet "VR BOX", which is a viewer hosting a smartphone. The students and teachers were looking through the VR BOX at a virtual human body and exploring the different body organs in 3D. Results: This simulation, not otherwise possible in class with the classical teaching tools, offered students and teachers the opportunity to immerse themselves in an extremely realistic environment and allowed them to have a fun, memorable and fascinating experience. According to them, the use of this technology could intervene, in addition to the course, to facilitate the understanding of concepts difficult to explain. One of the main advantages of using this technology, say some teachers, is above all the interest and the motivation it arouses among the students. Conclusion:The study presented in this article demonstrates the results of using virtual-reality environments for e-learning in the Algerian University in general, and for Health e-learning in particular. Furthermore, this experience and in view of the availability of virtual reality tools in Algeria at a very reasonable price, shows that virtual reality is very promising for the class of tomorrow and seems reinvigorating the teaching in Algeria as well as elsewhere.

Despite the considerable efforts of the Algerian authorities to reduce the high number of accidents, therefore, fatalities on the country's roads, the problem persists. To address this worrying situation, it is necessary to adopt new technologies and approaches that can assist Algerian drivers forcing them to comply with driving rules, thus putting an end to this concerned issue. This research aims to primarily assist Algerian drivers in reducing the mortality rate, which is primarily caused by speeding and poor road conditions, including outdated and inadequate road signs. To achieve this objective, a complete system consisting of two complementary subsystems: intelligent traffic signs and an interactive and smart speed limiter, has been proposed. Existing projects in this field have shown deficiencies, particularly in the context of real-time critical systems. This work offers improved precision, real-time responsiveness, adaptability to changes, and reduced infrastructure dependency compared to existing solutions. The new approach has been tested with the SUMO simulator, and a prototype based on Arduino cards has been developed approving its feasibility. However, the results obtained from this study demonstrate that the proposed system can significantly reduce the mortality rate on Algerian roads.

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Background:Assisting people with severe physical limitations with information technology has been an active area of research in recent years. Many researchers’ efforts are built on assistive devices which are often used to offset the impact of the resulted physical impairments.The Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT) is the widely known project in this area. After being released as open source, the developers’ community helped to integrate many languages such as French and Spanich. However, many languages are still messing and to the best of our knowledge, the Arabic-speaking users still can not use the platform as no significant effort to integrate the Arabic language have been previously undertaken.Methods:This paper firstly, provides an overview on ACAT; the specifically-developed platform by Intel Labs for Dr. Stephen Hawking. Besides, it describes the ways in which ACAT may be used to enhance the capacity to take part in fundamental and instrumental activities of every day living and upgrade one's autonomy in general.Secondly, we outline our contributions in integrating the Arabic language into the keyboard, the intelligent predictive text engine and all interfaces of this unique and highly configurable system. Results:Our integration evolved after resolving many issues and we succeeded in integrating the Arabic language in interfaces, keyboard and word prediction engine. Most of other ACAT features (Facial gesture recognition, Mouse Navigation., etc) are functional. Conclusion:This work is a step forward to make the intel ACAT platform completely available in Arabic language. Therefore, Arabic-speaking patient can now get the benefits from this platform and are able to perform common tasks such as documents editing and management, Web surfing, writing emails and above all, communicating with others easily.The Arabic Text-to-speech engine integration is planned for future works .