An Experimental Framework for Wellness Assessment Using the Internet of Things

Everyday wellness assessment is a promising step toward improving the health status of an individual. This article presents an experimental framework to address the growing concern of individual wellness using the advantages of the Internet of Things (IoT). The introduced framework uses an IoT device to read data from five environmental variables and a smartphone application to examine any correlation between environmental parameters and wellness. Ambient temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, luminosity, and audio amplitude data from a mobile IoT device are collected while the user answers three psychological surveys, regarding sleep quality, stress, and distress. The data are forwarded to a server to examine any potential correlation. The feasibility of the framework is examined through experimentation. An experiment with 20 participants is conducted. According to experimental results, parameters such as the luminosity and ambient audio have an effect on individual well being.