Want an easy way to manage blood sugar levels in diabetics? Leave it to AI

TORONTO: Scientists have combined radar and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to detect changes in glucose levels, an advance that may help diabetics monitor their blood sugar without painful finger pricks several times a day. The research involves collaboration with Google and German hardware company Infineon, which jointly developed a small radar device and sought input from select teams around the world on potential applications. Also read: ET's comprehensive diabetes page "We want to sense blood inside the body without actually having to sample any fluid. Our hope is this can be realised as a smartwatch to monitor glucose continuously," said George Shaker, an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. The system at Waterloo uses the radar device to send high-frequency radio waves into liquids containing various levels of glucose and receive radio waves that are reflected back to it.