Technical and Societal Requirements for Handling of Personal Data on Wearable Devices

Abstract

Global trends towards personalized healthcare is driving the desire for non-invasive, continuous, ubiquitous monitoring of individuals' health status. Wearable devices such as activity trackers generate ever more personal data and become a part of the data economy. These sensors systems transmit the data commonly to a smartphone and further to the cloud of a service provide via an app which acts as a gateway. Even though edge and fog computing, low latency as well as the optimization of the duty cycle can reduce the energy required for transmission, it still remains to be a major part of power consumption. Therefore, the wearable ecosystem requires the design and development of a framework for sharing sensitive data in a sustainable and ethical manner.