In addition to being a student at Neumont, I own a company named BG Alert, L.L.C. It provides parents of type 1 diabetics with ease of mind by keeping them up to date on their child’s blood glucose levels while at school, at a friend’s house, basically anywhere without parents. The child enters in their blood glucose level and sometimes some other important information about their health and they get an instant response from the database that instructs them what to do based on the numbers entered.
The best thing about this system is the parents create these messages and they are custom based on the time of day and their blood sugar at that time in the day. Once the system tells the child what to do, it sends an email and a text message to the parent(s). This eliminates the need for the parent to call the school every hour to see what’s going on and to tell them what to do. It allows the parents to have more freedom and not worry as much.
Right now, the website is not complete, but getting there. The ETA on completion is May 6th. The database is created as are most of the stored procedures used in it. The data and business layers are about 70% done as of tonight and the website has a layout that just needs the company’s copy and forms entered into. Fortunately, I’ve been able to have help from some of my good friends:
- Josh Arnold
- Dan Marolt
- Ryan Abreu
- Tommy English
Without these 4 guys, I would have an ETA of May 6th next year! If you have the opportunity to work with any of them, jump on that chance, you will not regret it.
Also, if you know of any parents of type 1 diabetics, tell them about my site and give them my email address (mike@bgalert.com), I’m going to need testers soon!