Assessing the Current Integration of Multiple Personalised Wearable Sensors for Environment and Health Monitoring.

Zhaoxi Zhang,Clive Eric Sabel,Prince Michael Amegbor

doi:10.3390/s21227693

Abstract

The ever-growing development of sensor technology brings new opportunities to investigate impacts of the outdoor environment on human health at the individual level. However, there is limited literature on the use of multiple personalized sensors in urban environments. This review paper focuses on examining how multiple personalized sensors have been integrated to enhance the monitoring of co-exposures and health effects in the city. Following PRISMA guidelines, two reviewers screened 4898 studies from Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, Embase, and PubMed databases published from January 2010 to April 2021. In this case, 39 articles met the eligibility criteria. The review begins by examining the characteristics of the reviewed papers to assess the current situation of integrating multiple sensors for health and environment monitoring. Two main challenges were identified from the quality assessment: choosing sensors and integrating data. Lastly, we propose a checklist with feasible measures to improve the integration of multiple sensors for future studies.

Highlights

The World Health Organization (WHO, 2018) recommends collective efforts to combat environment-related disease given the evidence on the effect of the environment on health and wellbeing
Coming from the Internet of Things (IoT) and quantified self (QS) paradigms, personalized wearable sensors are regularly used to track one’s own biological, physical, and behavioral [5] information, including psychological [6] and mental states [7] and physical activities [8]
Four categories of keywords and their combinations were used in the search: (1) ‘physical activity’ OR ‘outdoor activity’ OR ‘walking’ OR ‘cycling’; (2) ‘physical health’ OR ‘mental health’ OR ‘wellbeing’ OR ‘emotion’ OR ‘psychology’ OR ‘exposure’; (3) ‘environment’ OR ‘place’ OR ‘space’ OR ‘spatial’; (4) ‘wearable sensors’ OR ‘personal sensors’ OR ‘human sensors’

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Introduction

The World Health Organization (WHO, 2018) recommends collective efforts to combat environment-related disease given the evidence on the effect of the environment on health and wellbeing. Low-cost sensors for environmental exposure monitoring, carried by individuals, benefit the self-tracking of personal exposures to specific outdoor stressors, such as PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter

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