DreamBeam from GlucoMetrix AG is developed by Fraunhofer Institute

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DreamBeam from GlucoMetrix AG is developed by Fraunhofer Institute

On 20.12.2007, from GlucoMetrix AG, I got the message that I had been waiting for. The development of the DreamBeam from GlucoMetrix AG is going on.

(Since1993 a device that measures blood-glucose without drawing any blood is called DreamBeam)

In the press release, one learns that the GlucoMetrix AG has signed a cooperation agreement with the Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) in Chemnitz (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Chemnitz. )

What is microintegration?

Micro-Integration consists of
Integration and miniaturization.

Integration means that something single is braught into something large and is adjusted to the large one. In this case, individual electronic components are b rought into a common carrier such as silicon. A circuit manufactured like this is called an integrated circuit.

Miniaturization means, in this context, that the building blocks of an electronic circuit which can have the size of a washing machine can all be reduced to one another, so that they, for an example, may fit into a wristwatch.

A transistor, a major electronic component, which is large enough to hold it in your hands, today can be decreased in a manner, that you only can see it with a microscope.

Of course, a circuit with many large individually conected transistors, resistors, capacitors, circuit boards and cables is very vulnerable to mechanical influences .... and expensive. When all the components are bound together into a single integrated circuit network, then this circuit is much more reliable and cheaper .....

That means, then, that the Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) in Chemnitz (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Micro-Integration,) in cooperation with the GlucoMetrix AG are working toigether to build a reliable working Dream Beam at low cost which every diabetic can afford.

"The collaboration is an important step towards improving the quality of life of diabetic patients. Together with the Fraunhofer Institute, we will be able to market a bloodless affordable device for everyone. We will shorten the time for the development of the device significantly." said Paul Schikora, chairman of Glucometrix AG."

"Glucometrix has a very promising application at the start," confirmed Otto Hermsdorfer, responsible for industry contacts at the Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin. "We have great interest in building prototypes that work under the dayly live conditions. We want to develop them and to bring them to market."

The Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) in Chemnitz (Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration) specializes in systems integration and packaging of electronic products.

What is systems integration?

Systems integration is an activity of a business (in this case, the company is the Fraunhofer Institute). The company adapts software and hardware products of an other manufacturer for a particular purpose.

So, for an example, if someone has a green car (GlucoMetrix AG) and another one has a fitting, but black door (software or hardware supplier), then he goes into a workshop (Fraunhofer Institute), and it cares for it, that the color fits to the color of the car. Will say they make it fitting.

The workshop (Fraunhofer Institute) makes the system integration.

The car is the system. The painters are the system integrators of the Fraunhofer Institute in this example for explanation.

What is Packaging?

Packaging is not only the packing of an item itself, but the process to prepare a thing so that it finally can be sold.

The GlucoMetix AG was founded in 2001. Focus of the company's research and development are things, to improve the quality of life of diabetic patients.

I am pleased now about the unpacking of the new, for all diabetics affordable, precisely measuring, reliable, DreamBeam from GlucoMetrix AG. Or should I say Unpackaging?

Source: Press release of the Fima GlucoMetrix AG on 20.12.07

Dear visitress, dear visitor,
I want to wish you health, luck, prosperity and success and always a piece of glucose in the bag, because:
Rather 1 gr precaution, than 1 kg of medicament
- And if you nevertheless need good improvement a very good private health insurance >>more<<… “