Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Smart Wearables are devices that can be worn and work as an end device in an IoT
environment. Usually when ever the world smart wearables come in mind, the first
gadget that gets focus is smart watches. But smart wearables are not confined to smart
watches only. There are many other smart wearables also that are available in the market.
As these devices are connected in some smart environment, so they need to maintain
digital security requirements. Digital Forensics can be used to document any crime that is
arrived in any smart environment. As an end device, smart wearables also can help to
provide evidence for the forensics process.
The future of wearable technology is predicted to go far beyond exercise trackers.
However, advances in material fabrication for flexible electronics coupled with the
availability of smaller power sources that power to the top in an instant are already
reducing the size of wearables. Wearable technology could provide us with the ability to
monitor our fitness levels, track our location with GPS, and view text messages more
quickly.
Examples of Smart Wearable Devices:
A wrist-based wearables like health-oriented devices that go a step (or two) beyond what
fitness trackers offer these days. Another such device is akin to the device Amazon has
reportedly patented: a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human
emotions or Empatica’s Embrace, a medically approved advanced seizure monitoring
device.
Healthcare is undergoing huge changes driven by rising adoption and integration of voice
technology, which makes it particularly appealing to tech firms. There will be an increase
in number of such devices in the future. Technology is already there for the development
of such smart wearables. For instance, there is a company called audEERING with
a 92% classification accuracy of identifying early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
through voice analysis. By detecting tiny changes in a person’ voice, voice technology is
able to not only detect person’s emotional state from the sound of his or her voice, but
also mental abilities and critical diseases. This is a commendable development that will
have the most impact with early detection and estimation of disease progression in order
to deliver prompt and effective treatment.
The focus of voice Artificial Intelligence in a healthcare environment will be facilitating
real-time data to improve patient care and make it more personal. There can be a
streamlined medical experience with the added convenience of online check-ups and a
faster response (certainly beats going multiple times to a doctor).
In fact, the same company is collaborating on medical smart glasses that should be
available in 2020, where real time emotion detection should help in early diagnostics of
serious diseases like depression, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer's, as well as common burn-
out. The category of smart glasses is already developing, with products like Vuzix Blades
which are powered by augmented reality (AR) and come with Alexa, Amazon's virtual
assistant.
There are also smart earbuds or hearables that effectively combine wireless listening
with the capabilities of voice assistants and a wide range of smart devices. For instance,
Bragi Dash Pro has real-time translation, automatic activity training, Alexa support, and
more cool and arguably smart features.
As a more far-fetched predictions, some type of advanced lenses could also have the
prefix smart in the foreseeable future and play a major role in the further shift to an
interconnected user experience.
1. Identification Phase:
In this step the investigators identify the device i.e the smart wearable and identify
the IoT environment in which they are connected. The second thing is to
confiscate the smart wearables. These devices are connected mostly using the
Bluetooth connection, Wi-Fi access point or Telecommunication Network.
Disconnect the Smarrt wearable device for all the telecommunication services,
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connection, infrared etc. by placing in a bag that can guard
against any radio or electromagnetic waves, for example, faraday’s bag.
3. Examination Phase:
The most important step of the of any digital Forensics process is to examine and
analyse the collected evidence. Many forensic tools can be used for the purpose.
As Smart wearable Forensics do not have any single tool that is particularly
available for the DF process. Tool for other Forensics branches can help. Along
with memory and Device Forensics, Network and cloud Forensics tools and
process are also used to examine the data collected from the wearables and the
network in which they are connected.
3. Lack of resources
As discussed above that there are a lot of different manufacturers and variants of
Smart wearables. Each have different hardware, OS, filesystem formats and other
features. A single tool might not be enough to perform forensic analysis on all of
them. However, choosing the right tool is a very challenging task.
4. Legal issues
There is no doubt that the telecommunication system has made this world a small
village. The criminal activities are also spread across the borders due to the
extended communication system. Forensic examiners might face many
multijurisdictional issues related to the Smart wearbles seizure, data acquisition
etc. as these devices are connected in some IoT environment.
8. Forensic Framework
Till date there is not a single framework for which the forensic researchers have a
complete consensus. Many researchers have given their own frameworks that are
useful for the process. But there is a dire need of a general framework that can be
followed by everyone.
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