Stress Detection by Measuring Heart Rate Variability

Abstract

In today’s world one of the major leading factor to health problem is STRESS. The detection and the solution is mainly dependent on the experience of the clinician is in detecting the factors of stress. The disadvantage of this method is that the clinician’s detection may be wrong at some stage, due to the unawareness of new problems. The basic parameter on which stress can be identified are Galvanic Skin Response(GSR), Heart Rate(HR), Body Temperature, Blood Pressure(BP) which provides detailed information of the state of mind of a person .These parameter’s vary from person to person on the basis of certain things such as their body condition, age, gender and experience. In our project ,we have focused on one such parameter i.e. heart rate variability(HRV) as major technique for detecting stress. HRV serves as a substitute for “vertical integration”. This “Vertical integration” of the brain mechanism guides flexible control over behavior with peripheral physiology and thus it provides beneficial information to understand the problems related to stress and health. In order to avoid clincian’s mistake in detecting stress level, we have introduced a new hardware device which easily calculates the accurate pulse rate of a person and gives appropriate solution to the stress level.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.160470