Revolution in Diabetes Care On Cards ! Now Smartwatch To Track Blood Sugar Level Without A Prick

BITS Pilani Hyderabad has prepared a wearable in the form of a smartwatch, which measures blood sugar without a prick on the basis of samples of sweat. Developed by a doctoral researcher and his advisor, this product is meant to ensure that diabetes management is not only painless, cheaper, and real-time but also monitors other important health indicators.

 Diabetes Care Made Smarter: No More Painful Pricks

Smartwatch That Monitors Glucose from Sweat

To ensure that the sugar testing becomes hassle-free and affordable, BITS Hyderabad scientists developed a smart wearable that can be used to measure glucose levels using sweat instead of blood, which is a fresh innovation for diabetes patients.

A Personal Motivation Behind the Innovation

As a PhD scholar, Abhishek Kumar came up with the idea after witnessing how painfully his diabetic relatives pricked themselves. They also introduced this innovation along with their mentor, Prof. Sanket Goe, at startup Cleome Innovation, a spin-off of the MEMS Lab at BITS.

Affordable, Accurate & Multi-functional

This smart watch is:

• Affordable (priced at about 2,500 rupees)

• Very precise (97 98%)

• It can distinguish between glucose, uric acid, and lactate, which are major metabolic measures.

Continuous, Real-Time Diabetes Monitoring

Unlike a regular test, the wearable device uses sweat on the spot, so no blood sample is necessary, and it provides healthier long-term diabetes management.

Clinical Trials & Future Plans

The development is scheduled so that the first clinical trials will be reached in 6 months, and within a year, the commercialisation will be reached. The gadget has already been recognised in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which is Lab on a Chip.

Moving Towards Personalised Healthcare

The team is currently developing patch-like and skin-flexible sensors to enable non-stop diagnostics of health so that the process of controlling diabetes becomes smarter, easier, and affordable.