JaeParkPassionProject

Vitamin Alarm (Vitalarm?)

Lot of the professional athletes and celebrities have their personal trainers, dietitian or both that schedules their meals and vitamins to keep their clients in top shape! Not all of us have the luxury of having a personal dietitian to remind us when to take which viatmins at what time, so I would like to make an alarm application that let’s the use know when to take vitamins! Lot of people take vitamins and minerals for number of different reasons and most of them does not know when is the right time to take them. Some are most effective when taken first thing in the morning, some are more effective after meal and some should be taken before bed time (Zinc). I want my application to have a pre made DB of common vitamins with their health benefits and who might need them (if you easily get light headed, consider taking this…). My application will make a list of which vitamins the user wants to take and setup an alarm that goes off when they need to be taken, as long as the application is running in the background. The alarm could be replaced with a pop-up message on the user settings.

My application will be a mobile application, primarily for an Android initially, and may become available for iOS later on. I chose to use Ionic for my front end UI, with a middle tier server based on Spring.io and MySQL as a database. My front end will be a simple, point and click, calendar/alarm style UI with an option to drag contents within the application. My DB will store a list of vitamins and minerals with some information on them, along with a capability to take in user made inputs such as new vitamin information that is not listed inside of my DB.

I came up with this idea for my parents, who always forget to take their vitamins and needs someone (me) to remind them to take vitamins all the time. The application can go beyond vitamins & minerals and become a reminder application for the elderly that needs to take specific pills at specific time. Right now is only an initial phase and I have a clear idea of what I want in my application, but more ideas will spring up during development.

References: https://www.livestrong.com/article/517216-vitamins-before-or-after-a-meal/ https://www.consumerlab.com/RDAs/