So next we took a look at some of the existing technologies for glucometers and other methods for measuring blood glucose levels. We found that the predominant technologies on the market today are glucometers that directly measured blood glucose levels from a blood sample taken from the user. This was preferred because the technology has been around for quite a while. There is a newer technology that measured glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c) levels in blood, which seems to be a better and more consistent indicator that just measuring highly-variable blood glucose levels. However, this technology is still in it's infancy stages in terms of development, and available readers are too expensive for our purposes.
Some cooler technologies that exist are devices that utilize telemedicine principles, such as the Glucophone, a glucometer attachment to a standard Samsung phone that will not only read the blood glucose level but will also send the data to a central database for data-tracking and trend analysis.
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