These days, when a sensible mild bulb shifts from gentle white to crimson, it normally means somebody’s on the door, the canine obtained out, or one other house automation routine has been initiated in your sensible house app.
Within the close to future, that very same mild bulb would possibly inform you the donut you ate for breakfast is spiking your blood sugar.
In some methods, this connection between well being monitoring gadgets and the sensible house is already taking place. One (not-so-consumer-friendly) choice is utilizing open-source software program like Dwelling Assistant, which permits Dexcom CGM customers to create scripts that set off automations on sensible gadgets primarily based on a predetermined blood sugar stage.
There’s additionally new {hardware} just like the Sugar Pixel, a Wi-Fi–linked alarm clock that integrates with a spread of glucose displays, together with Dexcom, Libre, and Gluroo. Many of those connections aren’t by means of official APIs and are a bit MacGyver’d collectively, however in accordance with the person information, you may get your Stelo from Dexcom and different CGMs to ship readings on to the Sugar Pixel.
Startups are additionally transferring into this house. Ultrahuman, for instance, is constructing wellness-sensing gadgets, like sensible rings and glucose displays, alongside a house hub centered on well being. The Ultrahuman hub already measures air high quality, temperature, and light-weight. It’s not onerous to think about them linking that hub to their M1 Stay glucose monitor or Ring AIR sensible ring, creating a house setting tuned round an individual’s well being biomarkers.
Apple looks as if an apparent candidate to steer right here, given it has each a sensible house framework (HomeKit) and a well being framework (HealthKit). However to date, there’s no signal the corporate is desirous about merging the 2. That’s not stunning since Apple’s assist for the sensible house has at all times felt half-hearted, but it surely’s nonetheless value keeping track of Cupertino for future strikes.
For now, these integrations are the area of early adopters, folks snug tinkering with open-source software program or keen to belief a Wi-Fi alarm clock from a small startup. Long run, although, as CGMs turn into extra democratized and broadly used, I anticipate we’ll see a a lot stronger connection between wellness monitoring and the sensible house.
