Case Study on State-of-the-Art Wellness and Health Tracker Devices

Introduction

In today’s scenario healthcare in addition to wellness activities are considered must for a healthier and improved living and this is implemented with the help of health management implementation in terms of smart devices and services. Specifically, Japan was the only country in 2005 with its aged person rate at 20% and it will surge to about 40% in 2055 (Ikeda et al., 2011). The problematic condition is about the illness rates because of routine ailment like hypertension besides diabetes mellitus. Diabetes complicates illness whereas hypertension is linked with cardiovascular events and are responsible for decreasing the Quality-of-Life (QoL). To encounter all these illnesses our routine depends on various factors like diet, sleep, exercise in addition to dynamic keys like blood pressure measure before and after exercise. Healthcare and wellness data, which is collected by varied sensor, based Internet of Things (IOT) devices and they are amassed in a database, which can be studied in terms of lifestyle diseases or illness generated due to sedentary lifestyle. It might initiate a novel and smart incorporation of smart devices and services. The solutions proposed will be quite valuable and custom-made. Even though people are being more and more health conscious nowadays but still there a stigma allied with mental health and wellness with respect to nutrition in addition to workplace ethics (Clement et al., 2015). Social interaction is one of the features which improves physical and mental well-being of a person (Mirowsky et al., 2013) besides in cases of traumatic events (Collins et al., 2003), (Einarsen et al., 2015), (Berry et al., 2010). Due to increased levels of anxiety which is prompted by substantial assignments in association with substandard working conditions which is responsible for deteriorating a person’s psychological well-being. Scholars in specific, always remain at a very high risk of undergoing any mental health issues because of the abrupt variations in their everyday routine besides having unpredictable assignments and general expectations of their parents or teachers. Numerous student associations focus and promote on mental well-being of students along with assisting in providing varied tools to the administration. Facilities or tasks like online self-assessment tests besides individual psychotherapy are made available to students with the ultimate objective of recognizing persons who are at risk of mental ailment or need certain kind of help to manage with present circumstances. There are varied wellness tools which are responsible for addressing a person’s health on a weekly basis apart from some tools which address wellness on a day-to-day basis. With the help of developing technologies with mobile sensors in addition to smartphone technologies, wellness can be monitored as well as managed on a day-to-day basis. With the rapid development in Internet of Things (IoT), applications are supporting extremely short power communication protocols in addition to energy competent sensors, that too within a cost competent sensor development kit. Low cost, precise compact sensor nodes are positioned for months without a need of any upkeep cost, whereas regular smartphones act as the receiver.