Projects:2017s1-156 Interrogating a Glucose Monitor
Contents
Introduction
The purpose of this project is to interrogate the commercially available product of flash glucose monitoring by building a wearable device. The importance of continuous glucose monitoring is to maintain the normal glucose tolerance in the human body. It would be useful for people who face life-threatening diabetes symptoms since if the diabetic patients take inappropriate actions without knowing their real-time blood sugar would result in losing their life. For this project, we choose the Freestyle Libre company’s glucose monitoring device. We build a wearable device that provides users with the ability to get the readings at any time on their phone rather than using another company’s own-designed monitor reader equipment. The application installed on users’ phone will display the data on their screen and store the readings in a remote server to allow them to access the information from different devices.
Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System
This product consists of two parts, sensor and reader. Both are communicated via NFC which means the reader need to be close enough to interact with sensor. The sensor is small and lightweight. Thus, it is also a water-resistant. It is designed to be worn for up to 14 days and it need to be applied on the back of the upper arm. When sensor is applied, a thin, flexible and sterile fibre is inserted just under the skin. Sensor dimensions is 35mm x 5mm and its weight is 5 grams. It has memory to store the data up tp eight hours.
Design
Near Field Communication
Bluetooth
Group Members
Hui Wang
Wan Muhammad Che Mustafa
Supervisors
Prof. Mathias Baumert
Dr. Said Al-Sarawi
