US researchers have developed a system which treats Type 1 diabetes automatically and effortlessly — using the aid of a smartphone — dumping manual insulin shots and frequent finger pricks. Along using wearable insulin pump and a small detector, a smartphone can stand in to get a pancreas, mechanically tracking blood-sugar levels and producing insulin as needed, according to the researchers’ report.
The system operates using an easily available pen drive-sized blood glucose detector which can be worn in various locations on the body, like the abdomen, leg, or an arm. The detector reads blood-glucose levels every five minutes and reports the results to a specially constructed program on an android smartphone that is closeby and paired.
The program’s algorithm controls an unobtrusive, wearable insulin pump, which may be hooked to your belt or alternative article of clothing and analyses the data. The pump has an extremely fine needle that pumps insulin to the blood stream. Collectively, the “closed loop” system should act much just like a house thermostat, automatically feeling and correcting the temperature to fit preset goals.
source: www.technologyvista.com
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