It is based to assist people suffering from diabetes

1. GOOGLE SMART CONTACT
LENS…
Submitted to-Mrs. Inderpreet Kaur
From –Jagriti Makhija
Roll no-14EC16

2. Index…
• Google contact lens
• Parts of the lens
• Lens
• Design
• Current method of monitoring
• Announcements
• Existing System
• Advantages of smart lens
• Challenges
• Super vision without supervision
• Value capture

4. GOOGLE CONTACT LENS…
• Google contact lens is a smart contact lens
project announced by GOOGLE on 16th
January 2014.
• The project aims to assist people with
diabetes by constantly measuring the glucose
level in their tears.

6. Key facts about diabetes…
• One in every 19 adults in the world — some 382
million people — have diabetes, and it’s increasing in
every single country.
• More than 25 million children and adults in America
suffer from diabetes.
• In the U.S., we now spend four times as much on
diabetes in one year than we did to send a man to
the moon.
• Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, non-
traumatic lower limb amputations, and new cases of
blindness among adults in the U.S. It also caused 5.1
million deaths in 2013, making it the 7th leading
cause of death in the U.S.

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8. Lens …
• Soft contact lens-
Encapsulates electronic lens.
• Sensor-
Detects glucose in tears.
• Chip and antenna-
Receives power and send information.

9. Design…
• The lens consist of a wireless chip and a
miniaturized glucose sensor.
• A tiny pinhole in in the lens allows for tear
fluid to seep into the sensor to measure blood
sugar levels.
• Both of the sensors are embedded between
two soft layer of lens material.
• The electronics lies outside of both the pupil
and iris so there is no damage to the eye.

10. • There is a wireless antenna inside of the contact
that is thinner than a humans hair, which will act
as a controller to communicate information to the
wireless device.
• The antenna will gather read and analyze data.
Power will be drawn from the device which will
communicate data via the wireless technology
RFID(Radio frequency identification) .
• Plans to add small LED lights that could warn the
wearer by lightning up when the glucose levels
have crossed above or below. Such thresholds
have been mentioned to be under consideration.

12. Current method of monitoring
glucose…
• Pricking their fingers leaving with a thick needle
embedded in their stomach.
Advantage of Google contact lens-
Researchers have proven that the contact lens is
less painful and time consuming for diabetic than
traditional finger pricking.

13. Announcements…
• On 16th January 2014, Google announced that,
for the past 18 months, they had been working
on a contact lens that could help people with
diabetes by making it continually check their
glucose levels.
• The idea was originally funded by the National
Science Foundation and was first brought to
Microsoft.
• The product was created by Bran Otis and Babak
Parviz who were both the members of the
Electrical engineering faculty at University of
Washington.

14. • They also mentioned that their project is
currently being discussed with FDAs while still
noting there is a lot more work left to do
before the product can be released for general
usage, which is said to happen at five years at
best, and they are looking for partners who
would use the technology for the lens by
developing apps that would make the
measurements available to the wearers and
respective doctors.

15. Advantages of Smart lens…
• It is a simple and painless method
• Continues glucose monitoring
• Accurate reading – ensures efficiency and safe
use
• Reusable ( cost effective solution)

16. Challenges…
• Challenges presented by such a technology
are that the LED Lights contain the toxic metal
ARSENIC.
• The performance of contact lenses in windy
environment and teary eyes is unknown.

17. Super vision without supervision…
• Smart contact lenses are like implants but they don't
require surgery and can usually be removed or inserted
by the user. They're neither on nor under the skin full
time.
• Contact lenses sit on the eye, and so can enhance
vision. They're exposed to both light and the
mechanical movement of blinking, so they can harvest
energy.
• What you need to know is that smart contact lenses
are inevitable for all these reasons. Here's what you're
going to see, and sooner than you think.

19. Conclusion
• New technology
• Continuous monitoring
• Non invasive
• Mobility for patients
• Emerging markets