Mobile drug authentication system

Abstract

Mobile Drug Authentication System was a system that allowed patients to verify drugs or medicines if they are original or fake through a sms. The purpose was to come up with a solution of a system that detects if a particular drug could be original or fake as well generating reports of barcodes that customers sent for verification. This was not possible with the use of a website in making alerts of fake drugs that were being sold to the members of the public as not all people were not accessing the website and also such alerts were removed before others knew about them as there was need to accommodate other notifications on the website. This also was difficulty for members of staff to generate reports of such cases. However, the planning phase was done at the beginning of the project defined the problems and justification for the development of the project. Information gathering tools which were used included questionnaires, interviews, observations and document reviews this helped in acquiring information about the project acceptability through strengths, challenges, opportunity and threats. Database which was used was xampp in efforts to store data in huge quantities and at the same time to minimize data redundancies. The development of the system was done in PHP and Dreamweaver. The system testing and implementation of the hardware and software was done to ensure that the functions and operations of the system were working as per to the objectives. The project was successfully implemented as that change proved very useful to the members of the community and management in making decisions. This resulted in the project team making recommendations to the organisation that included security of the system and backing up of system data after a complete success of the system implementation.