Innovation Insights: BMW Automotive Health.
Welcome to Berlin. At BMW, they have always had a great passion for cutting edge technology. And now, digital health is becoming a rising trend. It goes way beyond lifestyle. It’s about building up performance and preserving performance. Follow me. Hey. Hi, Daniel. Sergej, now please tell me, why do I want to track my health while just driving? Our systems seamlessly monitor vital indicators, enabling early detection of potential health issues while enhancing driver performance. A car that takes care of me in addition to driving. Sounds amazing. Yeah. And that is precisely what the collaborative study between BMW and Charité Berlin is examining. Matthias, what is going on behind us? So we’re right now preparing the participant for the ride in our test car. And what outcomes do you hope this study is going to produce? The aim of this research is to get a high quality medical data. Therefore, we partner with Charté Berlin,a professional healthcare provider. And we provide the technical platform with the sensors. And in the meanwhile, Charité is helping us in analyzing the medical data. And today we actually get the chance to go over there and check out what you’re doing. Right. Let’s go. Yeah. This study involves 120 participants ranging from healthy individuals to those with a heart condition. Professor Meyer, how can this study support everyday life? What does it mean for the BMW driver? Well, actually they can now preserve performance and wellbeing. Here really, automotive engineering meets clinical medicine. We have two main objectives. The first objective is validation. First we need to validate whether it is possible to extract from car sensors medical-grade clinical data. And the second objective is about using this medical data. Is it possible to extract health profiles and detect them early? Professor Meyer, thank you very, very much. We can’t wait to see this study’s findings and what happens next. In the future, BMW drivers could benefit from digital health support right in their car. Sergej, walk us through the technology that monitors health data while we drive. A car can check your health without any additional devices. It uses a camera to measure your heart rate and a special microphone and a seat belt to pick up your heart sounds. The steering wheel wrapped in a conductive leather records an ECG while you drive, providing insights that usually would require doctor’s visit. This groundbreaking technology is continuous, non-invasive and effortless. This ensures that drivers enjoy both safety and preventive health support and preventive health support for their overall wellbeing while on the go. Matthias, what is the bigger picture here? We collect on each daily drive vital parameters and we can do an analysis by artificial intelligence and very good on-board computers. If some risk factors are detected, information can be given to the driver. What does that mean for me as a customer? What’s my true advantage? The true advantage is really that you will be on a safe drive and you will have perfect support while driving. The car is really a health companion on wheels and supports the sheer driving pleasure. Matthias, it really sounds amazing. Thank you so much. Over time, the knowledge gained from this research will become a seamless part of everyday driving and health-focused programs. Because at BMW, true innovation always takes the lead.
Welcome to the latest edition of BMW Innovation Insights!
Today, we travel to Berlin with our presenter Daniel Roesner. There, we will explore how the BMW Group and leading partners from the medical field are transforming vehicles into intelligent health companions.
This edition focuses on BMW Automotive Health, a research initiative that goes beyond mobility as we know it. In the future, cars won’t just drive; they will actively support our health, safety and everyday performance as well.
Daniel’s guests include Sergej Holzmann and Matthias Franz from BMW Development, and Professor Alexander Meyer from the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. They will share insights from a study with over 120 participants that examines how medical-grade health data can be generated on the road in a BMW 7 Series – contactlessly and through seamlessly integrated systems within the vehicle architecture.
📽️ Key Moments:
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Why Automotive Health is a field of the future
00:56 – The study by BMW and the Charité hospital
01:47 – Medical validation and scientific standards
02:31 – Technology integration in the BMW test vehicle
03:06 – The vision: The car as a health companion
Our experts in this edition are:
Sergej Holzmann, Development Driver Assistance / Health Monitoring
Matthias Franz, Project Manager Automotive Health
Professor Alexander Meyer of the Charité Berlin, Institute of AI in Clinical Medicine
Automotive Health is an entirely new approach that combines preventive healthcare with mobility to enhance wellbeing, detect potential health risks early and elevate the driving experience to a whole new level.
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