DE102010019018A1 - Home base stations for providing sensor data to e.g. human located in home, have encryption unit encrypting transmitted sensor data, where encrypted data are transferred to respective servers placed in monitoring center to monitor patient - Google Patents

Abstract

The stations (3.1-3.3) have multiple sensors (5.1-5.4) placed in a home region (2) of patients (4.1-4.2) for transmitting sensor data to the stations. An encryption unit encrypts the transmitted data by a cryptographic organism key and a cryptographic base station key that is stored in an access-safe key memory unit. The encrypted sensor data are transferred to respective servers (8.1-8.3) located in a monitoring center for monitoring the respective patients. A portable security token includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag implanted in the patients. An independent claim is also included for a method for a safe provision of sensor data in multiple organisms.

Description

The invention relates to a method and a device for the reliable provision of sensor data of one or more living beings, in particular patients, who are in a home area, for example an apartment.

As a result of the demographic development, the proportion of elderly and therefore dependent persons in society is increasing. Thus, there is an increasing need to support these people in their everyday lives in a safe living environment. Many older people or those in need of care, despite their advanced age, wish to remain in their own home or home rather than move to a nursing home or hospital for medical care. As a result, AAL (Ambient Assisting Living) systems are increasingly being used to monitor patients in their familiar environment. In the process, the patients are remotely monitored, that is to say sensors or measuring devices provided in the home area generate sensor data which are transmitted via a network to a telemedical center. The sensor data supplied by the sensors are first processed in a home base station, which is located in the home area of the patient, and then transmitted via a data network to the telemedicine center. Conventionally, the sensor data or vital data of the patient are usually transmitted to the telemedical center via the Internet.

The transmitted vital data of the patient represent sensitive information that should not get into the hands of uninvolved third parties. Conventional home base stations therefore transmit the sensor or vital data of the patient received by the sensors to a telemedical center in encrypted form. The sensor data can be transmitted pseudonymised and encrypted.

However, these conventional systems have some serious disadvantages. Each patient must have their own dedicated home base station provided, as the authentication of the patient to the home base station is device-based. If there are several patients in an apartment or a home area, for example an older couple, then each patient should have their own home base station in the apartment. If, for example, the patients to be monitored are in a nursing home, in a dormitory with supervised housing, a hospital or a rehab center, then for each person or for each patient a conventional associated home base station should also be provided for in this conventional system. This represents a considerable technical effort, since the functionality of the plurality of home base stations must be ensured at all times and also always a functional data connection between the home base stations and the respective telemedicine center must be maintained over the data network.

If only a conventional home base station is set up in a home area, for example in an older couple's home, there can no longer be any clear assignment to the respective patient, ie the telemedical center can no longer ensure that the vital signs received are or sensor data to a particular person, such as the husband or wife. This can lead to confusion and consequently risks for the patients.

Another disadvantage of the conventional system is that increasingly sensor data is to be transmitted to different telemedicine centers or other service providers. For example, a patient may be suffering from various diseases and / or need different services. For example, a patient is suffering from a chronic illness and must undergo follow-up as a result of surgery. In this example, the vital and sensor data regarding chronic disease and the vital or sensor data with regard to the performed surgical procedure would be transmitted to different servers or telemedical centers.

In the conventional systems, for each necessary telemedical center in the home area of the respective patient, an associated home base station is to be set up. This also creates a considerable technical effort, for example in the wiring of the various home base stations in the home area of the patient.

Furthermore, the conventional system with conventional home base stations is extremely inflexible, since when changing the person to be monitored within the home area or changing their monitoring needs several home base stations in the home area must be set up or be reconfigured on site.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and a device which on the one hand reliably provide sensor data of one or more living beings which are located in a home area and on the other hand avoid the abovementioned disadvantages.

This object is achieved by a home base station with the features specified in claim 1.

The invention provides a home base station for securely providing sensor data of one or more animals transmitted to the home base station by sensors provided in a home region of the subject, having an encryption unit that uses a sensor data transmitted to the home base station cryptographic creature key of the living and encrypted by means of a cryptographic base station key of the home base station, wherein the encrypted sensor data is transmitted to at least one server of a monitoring center for monitoring the living being.

For example, the living being to be monitored is a patient to be monitored who, for example, resides in his private apartment.

A patient may also be a patient in a hospital, rehab center, nursing home, or assisted living home.

However, the living entity may also be other persons, for example inmates who are in a penal institution or in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital.

Furthermore, the living beings can also be animals that are located in a closed area of a livestock husbandry, zoo or amusement park.

Each of the above organisms is associated with an associated cryptographic organism key.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the home base station has an access-safe key memory for storing the configurable cryptographic base station key.

In one embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the latter has an interface for reading the living entity key of the living being from a portable safety token of the living being.

This portable security token may be, for example, an RFID tag.

In an alternative embodiment, the portable security token is a chip implanted in the animal.

In a further possible embodiment, the portable security token is a data carrier, for example a health card of the living being or of the patient.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the living animal's read living animal key is stored in the home base station's access safe key store and used to encrypt sensor data of the subject if the subject is successfully authenticated by the home base station.

The authentication of the living being to the home base station can be done in different ways. One possibility is to use for authentication biometric body features of the living being. Another way to authenticate is to use the transmitted by the living vital or sensor data for authentication. Another possibility is that the living being authenticates via a user input to the home base station.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the home base station has a calculation unit or a data processing unit which executes one or more application programs which processes the data of the living being transmitted by the sensors for transmission to the server of a monitoring center.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, an associated cryptographic application key is provided in the key memory of the home base station for each application program.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the sensor data of a living being processed by an application program can additionally be encrypted by means of the cryptographic application key of the respective application program before being transmitted to the server of the monitoring center for monitoring the living being.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the sensors connected to the home base station comprise non-invasive sensors. The sensors can also be invasive sensors.

The sensors are preferably permanently installed in the home area where the subject resides.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the sensors transmit vital data of the living being.

In another possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the sensors additionally transmit whereabouts data of the respective living being to the home base station.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, a composite cryptographic key is used to encrypt the sensor data of the respective living being by the encryption unit of the home base station.

This composite cryptographic key comprises in one possible embodiment a living organism key of the respective living being to be monitored,
a base station key of the respective home base station and
an application key of the respective application program, which prepares the sensor data.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, a hash value of the composite cryptographic key is calculated by means of a hash function and it is checked on the basis of a stored hash value table whether the composite cryptographic key is plausible.

In one possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention, the home base station transmits the sensor data received from the sensors via a home gateway and at least one data network to a server of a monitoring center or to different servers of different monitoring centers directly or via a central platform server which supports the transmitted from the home base station sensor data to the various servers of the various monitoring centers.

The data network may be, for example, the Internet. Alternatively, the data network may also be a local area network, such as a network within a hospital, a retirement home, a nursing home, or the like.

The invention further provides a method for providing sensor data having the features specified in claim 15.

The invention provides a method for the reliable provision of sensor data of one or more organisms with the steps:
Transmitting sensor data generated by sensors provided in a living area of the subject to a home base station;
Encrypting the transmitted sensor data by a home base station encryption unit by means of a living subject cryptographic key and by means of a home base station cryptographic base station key, and
Transmitting the encrypted sensor data from the home base station to at least one server of a monitoring center for monitoring the living being.

In the following, possible embodiments of the home base station according to the invention and the method according to the invention for the reliable provision of sensor data will be described with reference to the attached figures to explain the invention.

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1 a block diagram of a possible embodiment of the system according to the invention for providing sensor data;

2 a block diagram of a possible embodiment of the home base station according to the invention;

3 a flow diagram of a possible embodiment of the method according to the invention;

4 a block diagram of a possible embodiment of the system according to the invention;

5 a block diagram of another embodiment of the system according to the invention;

6 a block diagram of another embodiment of the system according to the invention;

7 a block diagram of another embodiment of the system according to the invention.

How to get out 1 can be seen in the system according to the invention 1 for securely providing sensor data of one or more animals one or more home base stations 3-1 . 3-2 . 3-3 in a home area 2 established. In the in 1 Example shown are in a home area 2 three home base stations 3-1 . 3-2 . 3-3 intended. At the home area 2 it can be any closed spatial area in which living beings, such as patients or persons to be monitored, are located. At the home area 2 For example, it is an apartment in which persons or patients to be monitored live. In the in 1 Example shown are in the home area 2 two patients to be monitored 4-1 . 4-2 , The two patients are, for example, an older couple with different diseases or infirmities to be monitored. In the home area 2 are several sensors 5-1 . 5-2 . 5-3 . 5-4 provided with different via wired or wireless interfaces 5-i home base stations 3-i are connected. With the sensors 5-i they may be non-invasive sensors, for example physiological parameters of the patients 4-i to capture. The sensors may be, for example, blood pressure sensors or temperature sensors. Furthermore, one or more of the sensors 5-i also ECG data of the respective patient 4-i to a home base station 3-i deliver. Furthermore, it may be in the sensors 5-i For example, also act on motion sensors that are used for motor exercises of patients 4-i can be used. With the sensors 5-i they can also be invasive sensors, for example, blood values of the patients to be monitored 4-i to a home base station 3-i deliver. The sensors 5-i provide vital data of the living being or of the patient to the home base station. Furthermore, the sensors can 5-i also in a possible embodiment, data about the current location of the living being 4-i within the home area 2 transfer. This makes it possible, for example, to determine whether the person to be monitored 4-i still within the home area 2 or not. For example, in the case of a patient with dementia, the patient may leave the apartment unintentionally 4-i be recognized or prevented. For example, a door of the apartment can be secured accordingly.

The different home base stations 3-1 . 3-2 . 3-3 are at the in 1 illustrated embodiment with a home gateway 6 This is also in the home area 2 can be provided. The home gateway 6 is via an interface with a data network 7 Connects and transmits those from home base stations 3-i supplied sensor data of the patients 4-i directly or indirectly to different servers 8-1 . 8-2 . 8-3 various service providers, for example various telemedicine centers TMZ. In one possible embodiment, the sensor data is from the home gateway 6 directly to the respective server 8-i over the data network 7 transferred, the home gateway 6 in this embodiment, has a destination address of the server. In an alternative embodiment, the home gateway transmits 6 The various sensor data of the various patients first to a central platform server, which then receives the received sensor data to the various servers 8-i the various monitoring centers or service providers. In this embodiment, only the address of the platform server is in the gateway 6 configured. In the system according to the invention 1 as it is in 1 shown in the home area 2 the patients provided sensors 5-i the sensor data or vital data to one or more home base stations 3-i which each have an encryption unit. The encryption unit of a home base station 3-i Encrypts the sensor data received by them by means of a cryptographic organism key of the respective living being 4-i and by means of a cryptographic base station key of the respective home base station 3-i , With the help of the two cryptographic key encrypted sensor data are then passed through the home base station 3-i over the gateway 6 to at least one server 8-i a monitoring center or other service provider for the purpose of monitoring the living being or the patient.

In a preferred embodiment, each home base station 3-i an interface for reading the living entity key of the respective living thing 4-i from a portable safety token of the living being.

2 shows a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a home base station according to the invention 3-i , The home base station 3 is for example the in 1 illustrated home base station 3-1 , the sensor data from two different patients to be monitored 4-1 . 4-2 by means of sensors 5-1 . 5-2 . 5-3 receives. The in 1 illustrated sensor 5-4 For example, it is not to the home base station 3-1 connected. The sensors 5-1 . 5-2 . 5-3 are via a wireless or wired interface with a corresponding receiving unit 9-1 . 9-2 . 9-3 within the home base station 3-1 connected. Furthermore, the home base station has 3-1 via at least one interface 10 for reading out safety tokens 11-1 . 11-2 , The security tokens may be, for example, portable security tokens, such as RFID tags. Every patient 4-1 . 4-2 has its own portable security token 11-1 . 11-2 in which an associated living organism key or patient key of the living being 4-1 . 4-2 is stored and through the interface 10 the home base station 3-1 can be read out. the interface 10 has, for example, an RFID reader for reading out RFID tags. Conversely, the home base station can also 3-1 one Have RFID tag, which is read by a reader that the patient 4-1 . 4-2 with you.

In another possible embodiment, a corresponding chip is implanted in the patient or living being. This embodiment offers the advantage that the respective patient 4-i can not lose the associated security token under any circumstances.

In another possible embodiment, the portable security token is a volume on the living organism key of the living thing 4-i is stored. For example, the data carrier is a health card of the patient 4-1 . 4-2 ,

In one possible embodiment, additional information data about the animal or person on the security token are preferably stored in addition to the living entity key of the animal or the patient key and can be transmitted via the interface by the home base station 3-1 be read out at the same time. These patient data include, for example, personal data such as age, body size, etc. or administrative data, such as the health insurance of the patient 4-i , This administrative data can be used to settle the monitoring services provided to the patient.

As in 2 presented, has the home base station 3-1 via an internal access-safe key store 12 , The over the interface 10 From the security token read living thing key K _LW is preferably in the access-safe key memory 12 saved. Furthermore, in the access-safe keystore 12 a configurable cryptographic base station key K _{HB of} the home base station 3-1 be filed. In one possible embodiment, in the access-safe keystore 12 Application key K _{AP of} various application programs can also be stored. The application programs are used, for example, for conditioning the sensors 5-i received sensor data before going to the server 8-i be transmitted. These application programs can, for example, be stored in a program memory 13 the home base station 3 are located. The home base station contains a calculation unit 14 on which one or more application programs can be executed. The calculation unit 14 is, for example, a data processing unit that has one or more microprocessors. The calculation unit 14 executes one or more application programs, which are those of the sensors 5-1 transmitted data of the living being 4-i for transmission to the server (s) 8-i Recycle. The processed sensor data becomes an encryption unit 15 the home base station 3-i fed. The encryption unit 15 encrypts the to the home base station 3-i transmitted sensor data by means of the cryptographic creature key K _{LW of} the respective living organism or patient and by means of a cryptographic base station key K _{HB of} the respective home base station 3-1 , For this purpose, the living entity key K _LW and the base station key K _HB from the access-safe key memory 12 through the encryption unit 15 read. Which by the encryption unit 15 encrypted sensor data or other encrypted patient data, such as administrative data, are provided via an interface 16 to the servers 8-i the various monitoring centers, for example via the gateway 6 transfer.

In one possible embodiment, the subject becomes the key K _{LW of} the subject and the home base station K _HB key K _HB 3 the encryption unit 15 only provided if the living thing is facing the home base station 3-i successfully authenticated. This authentication takes place for example on the basis of body characteristics of the living being to be monitored 4-i , Alternatively, the authentication can also be based on an input of the patient in a user interface 17 the home base station 3-i respectively. This user interface 17 includes, for example, a keyboard and a display. In another possible embodiment, the authentication of the living being or of the patient takes place 4-i on the basis of one of the sensors 5-i recorded sensor data or vital data of the respective animal. For example, the living thing 4-i a physiological parameter which differentiates it from other living beings or patients and which can be sensed.

In one possible embodiment, the wireless or wired path is between the sensor 5-i and the associated interface 9-i also secured cryptographically within the home base station. The sensors 5-i can vital data of the living being in real time to the home base station 3-i transfer. In one possible embodiment, the sensors transmit 5-i also location data of the respective living being 4-i to the home base station 3 ,

In one possible embodiment, the data processing unit or calculation unit generates 14 if necessary, an alarm message based on transmitted sensor data, in addition to the sensor data to a server 8-i of the monitoring center. For example, when certain sensor data or a certain event in addition to transmitting the sensor data to a monitoring center 8-i Also, an alarm message to be transmitted to another server, such as an emergency station.

In another possible embodiment, the calculation unit or data processing unit controls 14 additionally one or more actuators locally 18 within the home area 2 , This actuator may be, for example, an alarm, the one in the home 2 alarmed attendant. At the actor 18 However, it can also be other types of actuators, such as an actuator, which is a bed on which the patient 4-i lies, pretended.

3 shows a flowchart of a possible embodiment of the inventive method for securely providing sensor data of one or more animals.

In a first step S1, the sensor data received from one in the home area 2 of the patient or living being 4-i provided sensors 5-i be generated at the home base station 3-i transmitted.

Subsequently, the transmitted sensor data by the encryption unit 15 the home base station 3-i by means of the living entity's cryptographic key KLM or patient and by means of a cryptographic base station key K _{HB of} the respective home base station 3-i encrypted. In one possible embodiment, those of an application program, which in the data processing unit 14 executed, processed sensor data of a living being 4-i additionally encrypted by means of an associated cryptographic application key K _{AP of} the respective application program before they are transmitted.

In one possible embodiment, in step S2, a composite cryptographic key is used to encrypt the sensor data of the living being 4-i used. This composite key may include the living organism key KLM of the respective living being or patient to be monitored, the base station key K _{HB of} the respective home base station and the application key K _{AP of} the respective application program. Various encryption algorithms can be used, in particular symmetric or asymmetric encryption methods.

In one possible embodiment, a hash value of the composite cryptographic key is calculated in step S2 of a hash function and, based on a stored hash value table, first of all checks whether the composite cryptographic key is also valid. Based on this check, it is possible to check if the compound key comprises a valid combination of keys. Furthermore, plausibility checks can be carried out with regard to the compatibility of the various keys, for example based on a key length of the respective cryptographic key. If, for example, it is determined that a living key or key K _LW does not match the base station key K _HB , the encryption and the transmission of the data can be prevented and a corresponding error message can be generated.

In a further step S3, the encrypted sensor data from the home base station 3-i to at least one server 8-i a monitoring center or other service provider for monitoring the animal or the patient 4-i transfer. There, the encrypted received sensor data using a decryption unit are decrypted and evaluated.

In the 2 illustrated home base station 3-i is preferably in a home area 2 in at least one living being to be monitored 4-i firmly established. In one possible embodiment, the home base station 3-i within the home area 2 to be moved. Furthermore, it can be at the home area 2 itself to a moving area, such as a transport vehicle, such as a ship or an aircraft. Furthermore, it can be at the home area 2 also act on a mobile ambulance.

In the further application scenario is the home base station according to the invention 3 can also be used in a penal institution or psychiatric hospital. This sensor data from inmates 4-i to appropriate servers 8-i transmitted by monitoring centers.

Furthermore, the home base station according to the invention 3-i also to monitor animals. These animals can, for example, stay in a stable or in a cage of an animal park. The system according to the invention or the home base station according to the invention 3 is thus suitable for remote monitoring of any living beings, in particular of patients, inmates or even animals.

4 - 7 show various embodiments of the system according to the invention 1 for the safe provision of sensor data.

At the in 4 illustrated embodiment, the sensor data in each case with the living organism key or patient key K _{LM of} the patient to be monitored 4-i and the home base station key K _{HB of} the respective home base station 3-i , which performs the encryption, encrypts to the servers 8-i various telemedicine centers TMZ from the home gateway 6 transferred directly.

At the in 5 The exemplary embodiment illustrated encodes the encrypted sensor data from the home gateway 6 first to a server 8-4 transferred to an AAL platform and from there to the various servers 8-1 . 8-2 . 8-3 various telemedical centers distributed or forwarded to this.

At the in 6 illustrated embodiment will be on the various home base stations 3-i different application programs Y, each having an associated application key K _AP , executed. It will be at the in 6 illustrated embodiment on the first home base station 3-1 the two application programs Y1, Y2, on the home base station 3-2 the application programs Y3, Y4 and on the third home base station 3-3 the application program Y1 is executed. The ones from the sensors 5-i transmitted sensor data of the patients 4-i . 4-2 be in the home base stations 3-i at the in 6 not only by means of the cryptographic home base station key K _HB and by means of the cryptographic creature key K _{LM of} the respective patient 4-1 encrypted, but also by means of the cryptographic application key K _APK the respective application program with the help of which the transmitted sensor data are processed for transmission. At the in 6 The illustrated embodiment transmits the home gateway 6 the encrypted sensor data directly to different servers 8-1 . 8-2 . 8-3 various telemedicine centers.

At the in 7 The illustrated embodiment transmits the home gateway 6 the first encoded by means of the three keys K _LW , K _HB , K _AP sensor data to an AAL platform 8-4 which then sends the encrypted sensor data to the various telemedicine centers 8-1 . 8-2 . 8-3 distributed or forwarded to this.

In the system according to the invention 1 becomes a patient or a living thing 4-i a home base station 3-i or an AAL box and an AAL application or a corresponding application program uniquely assigned. The sensors 5-i include medical and / or non-medical sensors, the vital data of living things 4-i to capture. The home base stations 3-i receive the vital data of the sensors 5-i and optionally propagate them before they are encrypted via the home gateway and the network 7 to the servers 8th the service provider will be transferred. The home gateway 6 can over a data network 7 , especially the Internet to one or more servers 8-i connected to various telemedical centers. On a home base station 3-i One or more application programs can be executed with associated application keys K _AP .

The authentication of the patient or living being 4-i can be done depending on a desired level of security and of an existing condition of the animal or patient. Examples of authentication of the patient are biometric methods, such as fingerprint recognition or speaker recognition. Furthermore, the patient may 4-i in possession of a security token 11 on which the secret patient code is stored. Furthermore, a combination of different authentication methods, such as security token and speech recognition can be used.

The authentication of the application program or the AAL application as well as the authentication of the home base station 3-i for example, to a server 8-i A telemedical center can be done in the background, ie without intervention by the patient or any other person.

The system according to the invention 1 allows a patient 4-i to uniquely authenticate, even if several people in the same home area 2 are located. A patient 4-i can have different home base stations 3-i used, which are assigned to different service providers or telemedical centers TMZ. A home base station 3-i can be from different patients 4-i to be used. The system according to the invention 1 also allows a home base station 3-i clearly to authenticate. Furthermore, it allows the system according to the invention 1 that a home base station 3 Application programs or AAL applications of different service providers or telemedical centers TMZ provides. Furthermore, the AAL applications or application programs can be uniquely authenticated so that a telemedicine center TMZ can safely assume that it is an application provided by it or an application program provided.

In one possible embodiment, the home base station 3-i over the home gateway 6 corresponding application programs from a server 8-i download from a service provider. In one possible embodiment, corresponding application programs of AAL providers or service providers are available on data carriers that are connected to the program memory via a reading unit or an interface 13 the home base station 3-i can be copied.

In a possible embodiment of the system according to the invention 1 monitors a server 8-i a service provider not only vital functions of a living being 4-i based on transmitted vital or sensor data, but also performs depending on the monitored data and measures that on the patient or the living organism 4-i act. For example, a patient can 4-i or chemical substances that relieve pain or have a healing or calming effect. In this embodiment, the servers receive 8-i not only sensor data, but also give control signals through the home gateway 6 and the home base stations 3-i to actuators 18 within the home area 2 off, z. To injection devices for controlled injection of substances into patients 4-i ,

The control signals are preferably encrypted by the server 8-i to the respective medical device or the actuator 18 transferred, which has a decryption unit.

Claims (15)

Home base station ( 3 ) for the reliable provision of sensor data of one or more living beings ( 4 ), which in a home area ( 2 ) of the living organism provided sensors ( 5 ) to the home base station ( 3 ), which is an encryption unit ( 15 provided to the home base station ( 3 ) transmitted sensor data by means of a cryptographic creature key (K _LW ) of the living being ( 4 ) and by means of a cryptographic base station key (K _HB ) of the home base station ( 3 ), the encrypted sensor data being sent to at least one server ( 8th ) of a monitoring center for monitoring the living being ( 4 ) be transmitted. Home base station according to claim 1, wherein the home base station ( 3 ) an access-safe key memory ( 12 ) for storing the configurable cryptographic base station key (K _HB ). Home base station according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the home base station ( 3 ) an interface ( 10 ) for reading the living thing key (K _LW ) of the living being ( 4 ) from a portable security token ( 11 ) of the living being ( 4 ) having. Home base station according to claim 3, wherein the portable security token ( 11 ) an RFID tag, one in the living being ( 4 ) implanted chip or a data carrier, in particular a health card, of the living being ( 4 ) having. A home base station according to claims 2-4, wherein the living entity key (K _LW ) of the animal ( 4 ) in the access-safe key store ( 12 ) the home base station ( 3 ) and for the encryption of sensor data of the living being ( 4 ) is used if the animal ( 4 ) by the home base station ( 3 ) is successfully authenticated. Home base station according to claims 1-5, wherein the home base station ( 3 ) a calculation unit ( 14 ) executing one or more application programs which are the ones of the sensors ( 5 ) transmitted data of the living being ( 4 ) for transmission to the server ( 8th ) of the monitoring center. Home base station according to claim 6, wherein in the key memory ( 12 ) of the home base station ( 3 ) an associated cryptographic application key (K _AP ) is provided for each application program. A home base station according to claim 7, wherein the sensor data of a living being prepared by an application program ( 4 ) are additionally encrypted by means of the cryptographic application key (K _AP ) of the respective application program, before they are sent to the server ( 8th ) of the monitoring center for monitoring the living being. Home base station according to claims 1-8, wherein the sensors ( 5 ) are invasive and non-invasive sensors which are present on the animal ( 4 ) or are sensors located in the home area ( 2 ), in which the living thing ( 4 ), are installed. Home base station according to claim 9, wherein the sensors ( 5 Vital data of the living being and / or location data of the living being ( 4 ) to transfer. A home base station according to claims 7-10, wherein a composite cryptographic key for encrypting the sensor data of a living being ( 4 ) by the encryption unit ( 15 ) of the home base station ( 3 ), the living organism key (K _LW ) of the respective living being to be monitored ( 4 ), the base station key (K _HB ) of the respective home base station ( 3 ) and the application key (K _AP ) of the respective application program, which prepares the sensor data has. The home base station according to claim 11, wherein a hash function of the composite cryptographic key is calculated by means of a hash function and it is checked by means of a stored hash value table whether the composite cryptographic key is plausible. Home base station according to claims 1-12, wherein the home base station ( 3 ) the sensor data via a home gateway ( 6 ) and at least one data network ( 7 ) to server ( 8th ) transmits directly to various monitoring centers or transmits them to a central platform server, which sends the sensor data to the servers ( 8th ) of the various monitoring centers. Home base station according to claims 1-13, wherein the sensors ( 5 ) to the home base station ( 3 ) transmitted sensor data of the living being ( 4 ), Sensor data of a patient who is in an apartment or a hospital, rehabilitation or nursing home, or sensor data of an inmate who is in a penal institution or sensor data of an animal, which is located in a livestock or a zoo , Method for the safe provision of sensor data of one or more living beings ( 4 ) comprising the steps of: a) transmitting (S1) sensor data obtained from in a home area ( 2 ) of the living being ( 4 ) provided sensors ( 5 ) to a home base station ( 3 ); b) encrypting (S2) the transmitted sensor data by an encryption unit ( 15 ) of the home base station ( 3 ) by means of a living entity cryptographic key (K _LW ) ( 4 ) and by means of a cryptographic base station key (K _HB ) of the home base station ( 3 ); and c) transmitting (S3) the encrypted sensor data from the home base station ( 3 ) to at least one server ( 8th ) of a monitoring center for monitoring the living being ( 4 ).

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