Grants and Contributions:

Security and privacy assessment for aging in place smart technology

994563

$110,550.00

Sep 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2025

Due to the significant advances achieved in medical knowledge and healthcare delivery, the world’s aging population has been growing considerably in the last decade. An aging population means increased spending in healthcare, pension, and social benefits programs. To alleviate the aforementioned costs, a new trend is to leverage emerging smart home Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to enable elderly people to age and live independently in their home as long as PAGE 5 they can take care of themselves. While a wide range of technological support based on IoT that allow seniors to age in place (AiP) are now available, limited attention has been paid to the security and privacy risks posed by these technologies. The objective of this project is to establish trust and confidence in aging technology and solutions by carrying out three complementary activity groups. The first set of activities consists of conducting a systematic analysis of the security and privacy threats created by aging in place technologies, and developing a new platform to monitor, detect, and respond to these threats. The second set of activities consists of designing and implementing a threatdriven approach for dynamic security testing of aging in place platforms. The third set of activities consists of designing secure and privacy-preserving protocols to secure AiP IoT data collection, transmission, sharing, and processing. The sum of these activities will provide a robust framework to prevent, detect, and mitigate security and privacy threats targeted at elderly people relying on IoT devices to age in place.

National Research Council Canada

In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.

Windsor, Ontario, CA N9B 3P4

172-2022-2023-Q2-994563

Grant

Grants and Contributions

10816 2611

Academia

University of Windsor

Essex

35117

Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives

Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.

541710