Design to Improve Workstation Environment for Frequent Computer users

Computers play an extremely important role in day today’s life. It is being used for long hours at Offices, Educational institutes, Home and at many places by small children to adults resulting in Stress, Body ache and various health related issues. Thus, it is very important to maintain proper working environment according to the ergonomics specifications to avoid these consequences. This paper aims at designing workplace using sensors to monitor parameters like distance between computer screen and user, tilt angle of computer screen and stress during work load. These sensors are connected to the microcontroller board Arduino yun which transmits data wirelessly via Wi-Fi. The results obtained are compared with the threshold values of each parameter and an alert notification is sent on Gmail if the desired condition is not satisfied, along with live sensor data updated on Google spreadsheet for future reference or to access this data remotely. This is carried out with the help of Temboo, a web based service that allows connecting Arduino yun to different web based services with the help of Temboo Arduino libraries. Keywords—Sensors; Arduino Yun; Temboo; Wi-Fi; Ergonomics.