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DMSP solution
The Yvelines General Council concluded agreements with INRIA to conduct a field experiment of a dematerialized personal medical-social folder (DMSP) in order to improve the coordination of care and social services for vulnerable people. This project aims to: (1) integrate medical, social, administrative and coordination data into one folder, (2) make it accessible at the …
Solution improvement
Since the end of the DMSP experiment, the solution has evolved in several directions: Embedding the Personal Server in secure objects built by assembling standard components that can be produced by any electronics company, opening the market to competition. Personal server 100% Plug&Play, with several communication interfaces (USB and Bluetooth). Installing DMSP is now as …
Hardware security
PlugDB roots its security in the secure hardware in which it is embedded. Although there is a wide variety of such secure devices (mass storage SIM card, secure USB key, secure token, smart dongle, etc.), all can be abstracted by (1) a Trusted Execution Environment and (2) a large storage space (potentially untrusted and therefore …
About technological barriers
PlugDB is a full-fledged DBMS (Database Management System) embedded in secure hardware. PlugDB stores data in relational tables, provides indexing and SQL query capabilities, ensures the logical (integrity constraints) and physical (transactional atomicity) data integrity, and most importantly, protects data through declarative access control policies (i.e., which user can access the data satisfying a given …