Glucose Monitor Wireless Data Processing Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Diabetes management devices are often bulky and complex, making them undesirable for users due to size, cost, and manufacturing complexity, and they rely on proprietary wireless protocols limiting hardware options.
Innovation Solution
A portable glucose monitor with minimal components, shifting data processing to a host calculation processor, using non-proprietary wireless communication protocols, and integrating a remote host device for data analysis and display, allowing for a smaller, more efficient, and cost-effective system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If glucose monitoring devices include computing, processing, display, and memory components, then data processing capability is improved, but device size and manufacturing complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides functionality into two segments: a simple glucose monitoring device that performs only measurement and wireless transmission, and a separate host processor (smartphone, tablet, or computer) that performs all complex data processing, storage, and display functions. This segmentation allows the monitoring device to remain simple while achieving advanced data processing capabilities through the host processor.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a wireless communication interface as an intermediary between the glucose monitoring device and the host processor. This intermediary enables data transfer without requiring complex processing components within the monitoring device itself, allowing sophisticated data handling to occur remotely on the host device.
2Extent of automation
If glucose monitoring devices include computing, processing, display, and memory components, then data processing capability is improved, but device size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts all complex processing components (computing, memory, display) from the glucose monitoring device and relocates them to a host processor. The monitoring device retains only the essential components for measurement and wireless communication, dramatically reducing its size while maintaining full data processing capability through the external host device.
3Reliability
If proprietary wireless transmission protocols are used, then communication reliability is improved, but hardware options and user flexibility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs universal wireless communication protocols (such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or other standard protocols) that are widely supported across different devices and platforms. This universal approach allows the glucose monitoring device to communicate with various host processors (smartphones, tablets, computers) without requiring proprietary protocols, thereby maximizing hardware compatibility and user flexibility while maintaining reliable communication through established standards.
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AI summary
A glucose monitor having only a test strip reader and wireless transmission to a remote hand held calculation processor. All glucose data processing occurs in a remote hand held calculator processor with the glucose monitor providing only sensing and wireless transfer of data. In an embodiment, the glucose monitor includes a button for use in wirelessly pairing the monitor to a smart phone for data communication with a non-proprietary communication protocol, and a light source to communicate the progress of the pairing. In a further embodiment, the glucose monitor includes a switch coupled to the strip reader such that power is applied to the monitor when a test strip is inserted and power is removed with the withdrawal of the test strip. In another embodiment, inserting the test strip and activating the switch also places the glucose monitor into the pairing search mode to communication with a host remote processor.