Neo Valentine Hutiri

Pelebox is a Smart Locker Dispensing System that enables patients to collect their repeat chronic medication in under 30 minutes. The locker is temperature controlled to meet standards prescribed by the South African Pharmacy Council. The solution monitors collections throughout the day and would reconcile this information at the end. It also has capability to check number of non-collections and remind a patient of a collection window. More-over, the Pelebox Smart Lockers can be placed inside a clinic as a speed services for collection or at a community centre (e.g. Library) which is closer to the patient.

The Pelebox Smart Locker enables a pharmacist or an authorised person to pack medicine in advance for chronic patients that will be collecting medication on a particular day. The system then notifies chronic patients of the readiness status of their medicine for collection and issue them with a One-Time-Pin (OTP) via SMS. This OTP together with the patient’s cell phone can be used to open a specific cubicle which has their medication inside.

A patient can collect medicine in a safe, convenient manner without spending too much time in long queues by using smart locker units. Patients can collect medicine in their preferred location with extended operating hours beyond the normal pharmacy or clinic times. When patients think of the Pelebox solution, they think of think of it as a simplified ATM for medicine. The fact that a patient can just walk over to collect their medicine from a Pelebox Smart Locker, which takes less than a minute and they just need a pin and their cellphone number.