Understanding how you sleep can help fight the health epidemic of the 21st century

The World Health Organisation has classified stress as the "health epidemic of the 21st century." As employees face greater pressures at their workplace along with an'always on' work culture, stress is the single biggest reason for most health issues today. This also comes with an economic cost where depression and anxiety disorders cost the global economy about $1 trillion each year. When Mudit Dandwate wanted to do something more meaningful in life, the IIT engineer got in touch with Gaurav Parchani, a colleague he met at Altair Engineering in Bengaluru. The duo, post toying with many ideas, zeroed on the healthcare sector for its immense transformative nature for the masses and that's how Dozee, a contactless health monitoring device, came into being in 2015.