Continuous glucose monitors use a hair-thin sensor under the skin to record precise readings every five minutes. But when kids go to school, extracurricular events, camps or sleep-overs, parents don’t have access to those critical blood-sugar numbers.
So a new generation of tech-savvy citizen hackers is confronting parental anxiety by tinkering with those devices to allow for remote access to the information anytime and anywhere.
Dubbed Nightscout, volunteers have rewritten software code to upload data collected by blood sugar monitors to the cloud via a smartphone or smartwatch connected to the device. The numbers can then be accessed by parents through apps on phone, watches, tablets or computers.
Full article at: CTV News