minutes a second alarm being sent to the administrator or a family member at for example 45 minutes and a third alarm being sent to the doctor at for example 60 minutes through the network configuration the device may have the ability to notify a pharmacy of the need for a refill of a particular medicament other network configurations and alarm sequences are contemplated by this invention examples of various aspects of the device and system are shown in the following figures which are intended solely to exemplify certain embodiments of the invention and in no way limit the full scope of the invention in particular fig1 shows a container 12 of the device which comprises a medicament dispensing unit having an exterior and interior the center cavity is exposed to allow access to the sorting mechanism in the interior fig2 shows in dashed lines the interior of the container 12 in which is located the sorting mechanism 34 u2014 comprised of a generally spiral u201c tornado u201d structure the sorting mechanism 34 is wide at the top to accommodate a large number of medicaments but comprises various narrowing turns and twists that restrict the flow of the medicament such that only the desired number of medicament reach the bottom of the mechanism 34 such that the measured release of medicament matches the desired dose most commonly that would be one medicament dose at a time the medicament is released from the sorting mechanism 34 at the exit port 14 at the bottom of the container 12 fig3 shows container 12 including the exit port 14 which is the final release point from the sorting mechanism 34 the exit port 14 is sized to ensure.