Security in Digital Home Visits

Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to study security for digital home visits, where traditional home visits are replaced by digital home visits using digital technology. The report examines the safety aspects for welfare technology solutions where data is collected from sensor systems and digital platforms and examines di↵erent Swedish laws that implies on a digital home visit. The study proposes an implementation of a prototype application to support users, relatives, and healthcare professionals to conduct digital home visits in a safe manner. The chosen scenario of the digital home visit was to check whether the person has eaten food during the day or not. This was done in a lab kitchen at Lule°a University of Technology with help of Z-wave sensors and a implemented systems. The result is displayed on a secure website. The solution is discussed and compared to other technical solutions of this problem and also to several Swedish laws. This paper finishes with a section aimed to provide a variety of recommendations when implementing a similar system.