Evolutionary Stress Detection Framework through Machine Learning and IoT (MLIoT-ESD)

Background: Life nowadays is full of stress due to lifestyle changes and the modernera race. Almost everyone around us is suffering from stress and anxiety. Mostly, stress identification is done by medical practitioners in a very late stage in which suitable help measures cannot be provided and hence result in suicides or early age deaths due to cardiac arrest, etc. One major reason behind the delay is the time required in stress identification by traditional approaches, and above that, the amount of time and financial support expected is always not feasible to be available. Hence, in this paper, we proposed an evolutionary research framework for stress identification by the usage of both machine learning and IoT. Here, we also conducted a pilot study on 83 records available over the decade since 2014 using PRISMA guidelines, and a bibliographic network visualization was also performed using VOS viewer. Objectives: This study aimed to develop a stress detection framework using Machine Learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) as technology advanced over a decade. Methods: More than 80 research papers from honorable repositories like Scopus and Web of Science were gathered according to the guidelines of PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) 2020, and the VOSviewer tool was further applied to construct the bibliographic depictions. Various datasets and methods used over ten years with their performance were also discussed. Results: This research was conducted to gather various types of stressors, the impact of various Machine Learning and IoT algorithms and concepts on various datasets and their respective results. Conclusion: Various available datasets and results with multiple algorithms were discussed in a crisp tabular form for better understanding. A methodology based on an amalgamation of Machine Learning and IoT was also proposed due to various research gaps available so that stress detection could be done in a cost-effective way.