The Smart Cyber Ecosystem for Sustainable Development

12Existing Trends in Mental Health Based on IoT Applications: A Systematic Review

Muhammad Ali Nizamani, Muhammad Ali Memon and Pirah Brohi*

Faculty of Engineering & Technology, University of Sindh Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan

Abstract

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the fastest growing field along with the Artificial Intelligence. It connects different wearable embedded devices (things) having unique identities with the internet and helps in ubiquitous data collection and analysis. Its applications range in wide variety of areas from smart ambient houses to smart agriculture. One of the important emerging area of application is the role IoT can play in improving personal healthcare, especially the mental healthcare of persons, where limited number of mental health practitioners means limited care for mental illness related treatment. In the last decade, IoT revolution has rebuild the modern healthcare with the promise of good healthcare services with timely intervention. In this work, a review of the existing trends in mental healthcare based on IoT applications is performed. In addition, this work reviews the benefits of IoT applications in healthcare and challenges it needs to address for widespread use of IoT in mental healthcare. For example, one of the challenges IoT-based mental healthcare applications face is that of security and trust, for which a blockchain-based approach in IoT is highlighted in this paper.

Keywords: Human computer interaction, mental health, ...