Wearing his company’s clinical prototype wristband, Alertgy’s director of engineering Ryan Bailey chugged a small bottle of “glucola” while relaxing in a brown recliner.
The liquid — which contained 100 grams of glucose — induced a blood-sugar spike over the next 15 minutes or so, unfolding in real time on a nearby computer monitor.
Bailey’s co-workers monitored this glucometer data from the wristband. To check the device’s accuracy, they poked his fingertip every few minutes with traditional “prick-and-stick” strips used by diabetes patients.
Alertgy, one of the original tenants at Groundswell Startups in Melbourne, has been named one of the “30 Fastest Growing Private Companies to Watch 2018” by the Silicon Review.
