Blood glucose monitoring is touted to be the next big breakthrough for wearable devices like the Apple Watch. However, the hardware is yet to be seen on a commercially available, mass-market device. That might change soon.
A team from Georgia’s Kennesaw State University claims to have developed a noninvasive system of blood glucose level measurement, thanks to a device called GlucoCheck. It follows the same fundamental approach as the oxygen-level analysis sensor on smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 8 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 5.
Team lead Maria Valero, an assistant professor at the institution’s College of Computing and Software Engineering (CCSE), notes that the device delivers 90% accuracy in analyzing glucose concentration in blood samples
Blood glucose monitoring via a generally available wearable device is going to be the next big driver of wearable sales, mainly because so many people globally have an issue with this (known and unknown). It would be even better if it could work across devices and platforms, but we probably won’t see anything generally available for a while yet.
See https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/non-invasive-blood-glucose-measurement-wearables-breakthrough
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