Scima Biotechnology

Inspiration

Inspired by our family members in Asia who do not have continuous glucose monitor options, they prick their fingers multiple times a day and bear the burden of carrying around glucometers and notebooks for tracking their glucose levels.

What it does

The Scima ring uses a niche form of optical spectroscopy to gather immense information about blood composition, specifically glucose, water, and lipids. It would provide a real-time reading of blood glucose levels.

How we built it

We are achieving this through a combination of micro-scale optical spectroscopy, AI-adapted signal processing, and user-centric design of device form factor.

Challenges we ran into

The most important challenge is filtering out the noise caused by water and lipids in the bloodstream.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We built a Monte-Carlo model that simulates light photons travelling through the skin. Using this, we constructed a look-up table to map glucose values while taking water and lipids into consideration.

What we learned

We learned about significant downfalls of other methods used to reach non-invasive sensing, including a significant need of calibration, large physical sensor size, obtrusive form factors, and inaccurate data.