Using mobile environment sensors for wellness monitoring

The ever increasing demand on society can lead to detrimental human health consequences, if not properly managed. Although society is becoming more health conscious, mental health and wellness is still lacking in adequate resources, particularly with the student population. Wireless sensor technologies can alleviate the problem by providing an additional resource in the monitoring and self-assessment of wellness. Correlations between specific environmental settings and mood alterations can be made to improve an individuals wellness, by monitoring environmental conditions. In this paper, a novel wellness monitoring framework is proposed that enables long-term deployment of a mobile, energy efficient environmental sensor, with storage and retrieval options through a smartphone device. The framework can help produce positive improvements and awareness to mental health and wellness, while also providing a foundation for alternative applications to be developed. The extensibility of this framework can allow swapping of hardware components to provide additional data, as well as interconnect emergent technologies for additional functionality.