Abstract
Current public health guidelines on diabetes management recommend frequent self-monitoring and physician tracking of blood glucose to reduce complications caused by this condition. While Internet-of-Things glucometers exist to aid in this goal, most commercial glucometers seen in wide-spread use worldwide do not provide these online tracking capabilities or allow for convenient data sharing with health care providers. This situation is caused, among several factors, due to premium pricing of IoT glucometers and resistance from older users to dispose of their previous glucometers. We propose an add-on strategy to enable IoT integration in glucometers to increase the use of wireless connectivity features in this sector. Here we describe and test a simple do-it-yourself system fabricated with low-cost commercially available wireless connectivity components that aim to demonstrate this IoT augmentation strategy to track glucose readings from previously unconnected standard glucometers.
Footnotes
This work was supported by the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA.
