10 million for a new kind of tracker

smart health connected objects have brought to the health field, the ability to quantify a lot of data, and thus monitoring physical activity, sleep quality and even the heart rate of users. In the little world of trackers, governed by FitBit, a new project was able to arouse interest big investors. Sano has received $ 10 million in investment to realize its sensory sensor capable of measure a person's metabolism at one point.

This invention, the creator of the start-up, Ashwin Pushpala, has been working on it since 2012. The goal is to make the device able to measure glucose level in the user's blood without pain so as to inform him about the needs of his body, and allow him to know what to eat and when. The concept of monitoring glucose levels is not new, people with diabetes monitoring it several times a day.

The project targets the general public, which implies for the start-up to collect information on a sample of people and create categories based on the data collected for be able to respond to each metabolism, which varies in individuals according to their height, age, weight etc. The device is expected for the start of next year.

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