Sociometric Sensors

I was pleasantly surprised when I chanced upon this challenge - IoT has always been close to heart, and I really appreciated the chance to explore it! The study of sensors and actuators particularly fascinated me. Here are a few things that caught my eye about a lesser-known sensor, the sociometric sensor.

Sociometric sensors

"Sociometric sensors are wearable IoT devices that measure the amount of face-to-face interaction, conversational time, physical proximity to other people, and physical activity levels using social signals derived from vocal features, body motion, and relative location." Source

From monitoring the social health of a workspace environment to caring for patients in a hospital, there are several use cases that can be built around this. However, the amount of personal data that would be collected in the process is enormous. There are as many concerns are there are possibilities, including the worry that employers in more spartan workspaces may use these to micromanage workers

In my opinion, there should be regulations around it like:

• Prior, voluntary consent from the would-be wearers
• Limits on how long information is allowed to be collected
• Shouldn't be used on those under the age of majority

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