Apple Watch will be closer to getting the glucometer

Integration of a resource for Monitor blood sugar level on Apple Watch It may be closer to realization. New details about the functionality emerged as follows: Bloomberg Wednesday (22).

According to journalist Mark Gürman’s report, the meter development team, which has been working secretly for years, has reached an important milestone. Finally Apple engineers would be able to provide a proof of concept for the mechanism.

Instead of puncturing the skin and taking a small blood sample, the device optical absorption spectroscopy. In this measurement process, certain wavelengths of light are used to determine the glucose concentration with the help of an algorithm.

The problem is that the size of the device in which the technology is placed makes it impossible to use it on the Apple Watch. According to Gurman, the first version had dimensions equivalent to a tabletop, and the next step is to reduce it to something close to the dimensions of an iPhone.

close, but not quite

While the team dedicated to developing the Apple Watch glucometer has made significant progress, It still takes a few years for the function to reach the smartwatch., as published. The real challenge is to shrink the size of the sensors used in the function to add it to wearables.

According to the report, it is worth noting that Apple has been working for more than 12 years to improve the function, with the project that started with the idea of ​​the brand’s co-founder Steve Jobs. At the time, the company would have spent millions of dollars and run tests on hundreds of people, comparing results with traditional measurements.

Details are kept secret by Apple, which even uses the names of initiatives it has acquired over the years to hide its involvement in the project.