2023-05-09
Design and Verification of Noninvasive Wearable Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring System for Smartwatches
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 116, 155-164, 2023
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a noninvasive blood glucose monitoring system that can be easily integrated into smartwatches. This system makes use of dielectric properties of blood-flow in human blood vessels as well as frequency dependency of blood glucose. To prove the proposed design principle, authors have verified the system working with vector network analyser and a directional coupler. The entire system design is explained in this paper. At the time of final system integration, the vector network analyser and directional coupler can be replaced with other on-chip sensors. Authors have also compared the obtained results with finger pricking based blood-glucose measurement. The results agree and have been tabulated. Clarke error grid was also used to evaluate proposed system accuracy.
Citation
Pratik J. Mhatre, and Manjusha Joshi, "Design and Verification of Noninvasive Wearable Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring System for Smartwatches," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 116, 155-164, 2023.
doi:10.2528/PIERM23020704
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