Empowering Diabetic Patients Using Gadgets and Mobile App

Abstract

In this paper, we present our efforts towards more personalized diabetes treatment using the mobile application. The application helps to overcome the problem of missing and inaccurate data on blood glucose level, therapy, physical activity and other parameters, and allows development of the algorithms based on daily data of diabetic patients. For the purpose of our research, we developed two devices: myGluco - a small, portable device to be included into the glucose measurement kit patients carry with them on daily basis intended to transfer the saved blood glucose data from the glucose meter to the diabetic patients monitoring platform, and myWrist – the second small, portable device to track patients’ physical activity level and to serve in guiding the patients in performing strength exercises and to enable recording of their performance during exercising.