“We use a lot of sensors, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) to assess the health of a car,” Dandwate, 33, told Bloomberg News in an interview. “And that’s where my race car-engineering background helped, because we used some of the same methods to develop a sensor-based contactless patient monitoring system.”
When racing-car engineer Mudit Dandwate nearly lost an uncle to undiagnosed sepsis in an Indian hospital, he made it his mission to improve patient monitoring in the country of 1.4 billion.
Dandwate, a consultant to sports carmakers such as McLaren at the time, decided to apply his experience with race cars to healthcare. He and a fellow engineer began working on a project to use the kinds of sensors used in Formula 1 cars that can monitor body’s micro-vibrations to map health metrics in non-intrusive ways at hospitals.
