US IT media “A new product for measuring blood glucose is expected to be released in the second quarter”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Chae Sae-rom = The smart watch’s health monitoring function extends to measuring blood sugar following electrocardiogram and blood pressure.
According to the industry and foreign media on the 8th, the US IT media Phone Arena quotes the famous IT Twitterian’Ice Universe’ on the 7th (local time), and Samsung Electronics’ new smartwatch products, Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch Active 4, will be released in the second quarter. Reported that it could be.
The biggest feature of the new product is expected to be a blood sugar level monitoring function.
Diabetic patients have been measuring their blood sugar by stabbing their fingertips to bleed.
The next-generation Galaxy Watch uses sensors to measure blood sugar.
Samsung Electronics has previously developed a non-invasive glucose monitoring (NGM) technology that can measure blood sugar using laser light without directly drawing blood, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research team.
This technology applies Raman spectroscopy to identify materials by using the phenomenon that the wavelength of light changes due to the natural vibration of the material molecules when laser light is irradiated onto and scattered.
The non-invasive blood glucose measurement technology is expected to be included in the Apple Watch 7, which Apple will release in September-October.
Apple has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office for obtaining blood sugar levels using terahertz spectroscopy.
Phone Arena observed that “There is a prospect that the Apple Watch 7 will also include a function to monitor the user’s blood sugar level, so Samsung Electronics can launch the product first in the second quarter for the’first’ position.”
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, in the fourth quarter of last year, in the global smartwatch market, Apple ranked first with 40% market share, and Samsung Electronics ranked second with 10% market share.
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