Mission Statement

BluCircle’s mission is to develop an innovative design for a non-invasive blood glucose detector targeted towards people in third world countries with a high potential risk for type-2 diabetes, as well as to bring forth overall awareness about diabetes.

 

Current Situation

Over 300 million people worldwide have confirmed diabetes and the number is rising. Self-monitoring of blood glucose has been established as a valuable tool for diabetes management. However, most self-monitoring solutions are either invasive or are unreliable and interference prone.

 

Your Solution

Our proposed solution is to develop an optical non-invasive glucose biosensor for salivary analysis. Saliva causes a color change on filter paper strips that have been saturated with a co-immobilize glucose oxidase solution and a pH sensitive dye. We will analyze the color change by finding the mean intensity of the RGB (red-green-blue) profile. Then by correlating the intensities with different glucose concentrations, we can deduce a biosensor calibration curve which we will serve as a basis of comparison for experimental data. The final step of the process will to be to implement this system onto a Raspberry Pi.

This simple approach of taking a RGB profile of paper strip for glucose monitoring is not only novel, but shall be cost-effective and convenient to patients who would like to monitor their body glucose level in a non-invasive way.