KWatch Glucose: A Wearable Painless Continuous Glucose Monitoring Smartwatch

Project description

A smart, painless device to track glucose levels

Only 20 % of the estimated 100 million people who should be monitoring their blood glucose levels (GL) several times a day actually do it correctly. One reason for this is that the monitoring devices used today may cause pain and are too expensive. The EU-funded K’Watch Glucose project will offer a solution to this problem by introducing to the European and US markets a novel monitoring system – K'Watch Glucose. The system, which consists of a smartwatch and a consumable patch, enables minimally invasive, continuous, painless GL self-monitoring. An innovative technology permits high accuracy of GL measurements without blood sampling thanks to a biosensor array made of micro needles. The solution will offer the first convenient, constant GL monitoring method, effectively preventing complications caused by hypoglycaemia.

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › medical biotechnology › tissue engineering › artificial pancreas › continuous glucose monitors
• medical and health sciences › clinical medicine › endocrinology › diabetes

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
• H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
• H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Topic(s)

• EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument

Call for proposal

H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3
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Funding Scheme

SME-2b - SME Instrument (grant only and blended finance)

Coordinator

PK VITALITY

Address

14 Avenue De L'opera
75001 Paris
France

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU contribution

€ 2 289 963,38