Experimental Study of the Stress Level at the Workplace Using an Smart Testbed of Wireless Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence Techniques

Abstract. This paper combines techniques of ambient intelligence and wireless sensor networks with the objective of obtain important conclu-sions to increase the quality of life of people. In particular we oriented our study to the stress at the workplace, because stress is a leading cause of illness and disease. This article presents a wireless sensor networks obtaining information of the environment, a pulse sensor obtaining hear rate values and a complete data analysis applying techniques of ambi-ent intelligence to predict stress from these environment variables and people attributes.Results show promise on the identification of stress-ful situations as well as stress inference through the use of predictive algorithms