Measure Your Blood Sugar Wirelessly
Wireless Glucose Meter
A wireless glucose meter reached the semi-finals in the “Last Gadget Standing” competition at CES, showcasing the growing consumer appeal of mobile health devices.
The Telcare company’s BGM is the world’s first cellular-enabled glucose meter, and one of the first wireless medical gadgets to garner widespread recognition in the consumer electronics field.
The device placed seventh in a popular vote at CES, ranking as high as entries from major companies such as Sony, Samsung and Epson, highlighting its mass appeal.
The device works like a traditional blood sugar meter. A user inserts a test trip into a slot on the device, pricks a finger to get a drop of blood, then touches the drop to the strip and waits for the meter to read glucose level.
What the meter does next sets it apart. The Telcare BGM then sends results to a secure online database using an internal, wireless modem, and users, physicians, family members or caregivers can access and comment on them.
