By Katia Moskvitch, BBC
One cutting edge technology is McLaren’s advanced telemetry system, which uses sensors to monitor data feeds and thus enable real-time strategy and decision making. “We’ve decided to take the aspect of remote condition monitoring of the car, and apply it to monitoring of people,” explains Geoff McGrath, the head of the Applied Technologies department. As he walks along a futuristic transparent walkway, suspended just under the ceiling, Mr McGrath says that the firm has already used this technology on patients undergoing a weight loss programme at a clinic in Norfolk. The patients had medical sensors hooked up to them, transmitting data to the doctors. “In the words of the people on the programme, they essentially had their GP with them, in their pocket,” Mr McGrath explains.
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