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Khatri: Samsung is developing non-invasive CGM tech at Bangalore R&D center

Amit Khatri · Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath · Apr 26, 2025 · at 2:37:34

Amit Khatri (co-founder of Noise) discusses the development of non-invasive health sensors by major tech companies.

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“Samsung has a huge R&D center in Bangalore, where they are working on blood pressure and CGM on device where it's non-invasive.”

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The claim, plainly

Samsung is developing non-invasive blood pressure and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology for wearable devices at its R&D center in Bangalore.

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Assessment

Amit Khatri's claim that Samsung is developing non-invasive blood pressure and continuous glucose monitoring technologies at its R&D center in Bangalore (Samsung R&D Institute India – Bangalore, SRI-B) is corroborated by peer-reviewed research publications, institutional projects, and executive disclosures. At the corporate level, then-Head of Digital Health Dr. Hon Pak confirmed in January 2024 that Samsung was investing heavily in non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring and blood pressure tracking for wearable devices. Specifically at SRI-B, researchers developed InstaBP (an AI-driven cuffless PPG blood pressure monitoring system that won a NASSCOM award in 2018), authored multiple IEEE EMBC papers (2016, 2018) on cuffless continuous blood pressure estimation from wearable PPG sensors, and co-authored IEEE research on non-invasive glucose monitoring architectures for diabetic care.

In January 2024, Samsung Digital Health head Dr. Hon Pak stated Samsung is actively investing in bringing non-invasive continuous blood glucose and blood pressure tracking to Galaxy wearables.
Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore (SRI-B) developed InstaBP, an optical/PPG-based cuff-less blood pressure estimation AI system recognized at the 2018 NASSCOM AI Game Changer Awards.
SRI-B researchers have published peer-reviewed studies on cuff-less continuous blood pressure monitoring algorithms (IEEE EMBC 2016/2018) and non-invasive glucose monitoring platforms (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I).

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[1] fiercebiotech.com [2] straitstimes.com [3] samsung.com [4] samsung.com [5] techrepublic.com [6] samsung.com [7] researchgate.net [8] researchgate.net

"Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore" "glucose" OR "blood pressure" OR "health" Samsung R&D Bangalore glucose monitoring OR blood pressure wearable Samsung SRI-B non invasive blood glucose blood pressure "Samsung R&D" Bangalore "blood pressure" OR "glucose" patent OR paper

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