PCAS - Personalised Centralised Authentication System

Objectives

PCAS aims at providing an innovative, trustworthy, handheld device. The Secured Personal Device (SPD) will allow users to securely store their data, to share it with trusted applications, and to easily and securely authenticate him. The SPD will recognize its user using multiple biometric sensors, including a stress level sensor to detect coercion. Using the same biometric authentication, the SPD will be able to enforce secure communication with servers in the cloud, relieving the user from memorizing passwords.

The SPD will take the form of a smartphone add-on that draws power from the smartphone and uses its communication services. The security and authentication mechanisms will use software components running on the SPD, on the smartphone, and in the cloud. These software components will enable the use of biometric sensors to perform authentication locally and to the cloud, authorize access to the stored data on the SPD and securely transfer data from/to remote devices, e.g. USB connected computers and remote web services. The project will develop a full environment composed of programming APIs (needed to develop trusted applications) and modules that allow the easy integration of PCAS with existing web services. The benefits of the project will be demonstrated with two use cases: electronic health and university campus access control.

Outcomes

Development of a novel smartphone accessory (The SPD)
New mobile biometric authentication algorithms and scenarios
Development of a new and efficient security architecture for mobile devices and cloud services
Secure biometric authentication in mobile scenarios
Increased security of personal and sensitive mobile data
Targeted at emerging markets:

collection and storage of private and sensitive information with smartphones
personal health record Management

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Research areas

Information Security

Smart Sensing

Project period

From October 2013 to September 2016

Department

ICT Research

Links

https://www.pcas-project.eu/

Financing

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610713.

Programme: FP7-ICT-2013-10 Objective 1.5.

Partners

OS
OS New Horizon Ltd., established in 2010, is an initiative of the Brown family, former co-owners of Wella Israel and Intercosma Inc. Gila Fish, nee Brown, who formerly held leading positions in the family business, is the visionary and driving force behind this new enterprise. OS business targets are focused in the development and supply of personal computing solutions to the people in the digital era, by enhancing their privacy, security and ease of use.

INESC-ID
INESC-ID, “Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa” is a private not for-profit institution dedicated to research and development, certified as of public interest. Created in 2000, it was awarded the status of Associated Laboratory (Laboratório Associado) in 2004. It is owned by Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores. INESC-ID is one of the most dynamic research institutes in Portugal in the areas of electronics, information systems and telecommunications.

UPM
UPM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Technical University of Madrid) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical university, with more than 3.000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students and 6.000 postgraduates in 21 Schools of study. UPM, as a top quality academic establishment, has a strong commitment to R&D and Innovation. It boasts over 200 Research Units and several Research Institutes and Technological Centres.

NR
Norsk Regnesentral (NR) is a private, independent, non-profit foundation established in 1952. NR performs contract research in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT), statistical modelling, and remote sensing and image analysis applied to the application areas of oil and gas, bank and finance, climate and environment, industry and energy, health, and private and public services.

CEA-LETI
With a staff of approximately 2000 people, the Research and Technology department of CEA is one of the major applied research laboratories in Europe. CEA devotes about 85% of this activity to finalized research with external partners. One of its main vocations is to help companies to increase their competitiveness through innovation and research-to-industry technological transferring. LETI is one of the laboratories of the Technological Research Division of CEA.

MAXDATA
Maxdata Informática is a SME that develops healthcare software solutions (Clinidata® software) for more than 30 years, having a strong presence in the biggest Portuguese hospitals in different areas and laboratories, namely, electronic requisition, clinical pathology, anatomic pathology, immunohematology and epidemiologic surveillance. Clinidata® software is also present in a significant amount of laboratories across 3 continents.

AFCON
AFCON Control and Automation Ltd. is a major Israeli Systems House in the fields of Computer-based Control and Security systems, involved in the detailed design, implementation and commissioning of major national and overseas projects. AFCON Control and Automation Ltd. is fully owned by AFCON Technologies Ltd, part of the AFCON Holdings Group – a leading Israeli contracting and manufacturing company of Industrial electrical, Electronics and Control Systems, Natural Gas systems and Communications solution provider.

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