Systems and methods for securely monitoring an individual

摘要

A biometric sensor may be coupled to a portable communications device, such as a cellular telephone. The biometric sensor may be configured to acquire one or more measurements of biological characteristics of an individual. One or more of the measurements may relate to internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual, such as non-volitional processes occurring within the individual, sub-epidermal structures within the individual, or the like. A biometric marker may be derived from one or more of the measurements. The portable communications device may be activated responsive to deriving the biometric marker. The activation may include transmitting the measurements and/or biometric markers derived therefrom to a receiver using the portable communications device.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
transmitting, using an energy emitter of a biometric sensor, a first energy signal into a sub-epidermal structure of an individual, receiving, from the sub-epidermal structure of the individual, a second energy signal using an energy sensor of the biometric sensor; determining a first sub-epidermal characteristic of the individual using the second energy signal; transmitting, to a monitoring service executing on a server device, the first sub-epidermal characteristic of the individual; receiving, from the monitoring service executing on the server device, a request for a second sub-epidermal characteristic of the individual; measuring, using the biometric sensor, the second sub-epidermal characteristic of the individual; transmitting, to the monitoring service executing on the server device, the second sub-epidermal characteristic; and receiving, at a portable electronic device, a first alert from the monitoring service executing on the server device when the second sub-epidermal characteristic diverges from one or more thresholds defined in a profile for the individual, the profile comprising one more profile measurements corresponding to sub-epidermal measurements previously taken for the individual.