Glucose Sensing RFID Microchip
September 7, 2007
Technology keeps moving ahead making life easier for diabetecs. I can’t remember the original source for this snippet but I found it among other bits and pieces in my WordPress draft. I had noticed a while back that a company called Digital Angel announced that the USPTO has granted them a patent for a “syringe-implantable glucose-sensing RFID microchip.”
Checking blood glucose levels regularly is critical to properly managing diabetes. The conventional method – a finger prick – is invasive, painful and often inaccurate. The implantable bio-sensor chip has a passive transponder, glucose sensor and integrated circuitry that allow anyone implanted with the microchip to painlessly scan it to determine their level of glucose concentration. The RFID microchip quickly and accurately transmits the glucose data back to a wireless scanner that displays the glucose level. The RFID microchip is powered by the scanner signal, avoiding the need for a battery in the microchip.
If anyone has more info about this, please feel free to post, thanks.
