MedAngel ONE: Insulin Temperature Sensor

MedAngel ONE in action. Popped in Harrison's medbox with app running on our phone tracking it's temperature.

Towards the end of last year I stumbled across an Instagram post about the MedAngel ONE Insulin Temperature Sensor. I very quickly got in touch with the Germany-based company and was blown away by how quickly my email was received and replied to. Our new temperature sensors arrived this week, and as luck would have it - it has been the hottest week in months. We experienced first hand the little sensor readings being received by the app on our phone and then alarming to alert us to the temperature rise. We quickly moved our insulin into the fridge for it to cool down for the remainder of the afternoon before needing it again at Harrison's dinnertime bolus and bedtime basal.

A little note scribbled on their app leaflet... Harrison says "Thanks MedAngel".

I think we waited about 4 or 5 weeks for our sensors to arrive, and you can imagine that when it did, we very eagerly ripped open the envelope and sensor box to get going. We then spent about 5 minutes navigating the super easy app... and then spent the rest of the night checking the insulin temperature every few minutes! It felt like the first few hours after a CGM insertion. Of course the novelty wears off because the temperature doesn't fluctuate abnormally in the evenings for us to be aware or take precautions in a hurry.

This past week we have had some incredibly high temperatures and the app has been able to notify us several times of an increase that we were then able to move our insulin into a fridge. Had we not had these in place we'd have lost his basal and bolus cartridges to the spoils of Summer.

Here's our unboxing in pics:

A couple instruction on how to do the battery insertion. We got two sensors - it makes sense having two so that you can keep one in your medbox with your penfills as well as one in the fridge to keep track of temperatures here too.

First things first - download the MedAngel ONE app. It's available for both Android and iPhone which is great!

Once installed, the registration and set up process is pretty straight forward. If you don't have one already you will need to create an account quick.

You then pair the sensor with your app - make sure your bluetooth is on. You'll assign your sensor to storage or carrying depending on where you are going to be keeping it. And if you are lucky enough to have two - yes - you can track two separate sensors on the app.

You will need to choose from a list of insulin's preprogrammed into the app. I suspect if yours isn't listed there is a way to add it. We logged both our novarapid and levimir penfill insulins on here so as soon as we hit done we were flying!

In a couple weeks we will share some more about this nifty little gadget. Aside from proving itself useful in this heat, we were thrilled to see that it can store temperature data for up to 7 days in the absence of the app. How cool? 

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Below is a link shared on our insta showing how the cool little app alerted us to the temp going too high! If you don't follow us on instagram yet, make sure that you do! We are @typeonewarrior.co.za - or simply click through here and you can hit follow on our profile!

Loving the new @medangelco temperature sensor being in our medbox... It's well into the thirties here and our insulin takes such a knock!

A post shared by type one warrior (@typeonewarrior.co.za) on Jan 19, 2018 at 7:19am PST