Systems and methods for securely monitoring an individual

A system for obtaining biometric measurements, comprising:

• a portable communications device capable of transmitting and receiving information on a communications network, the portable communications device comprising:
• an biometric sensor, the biometric sensor comprising,
• an energy emitter configured to transmit one or more energy signals towards an individual, the energy signals configured to measure internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual,
• an energy receiver configured to detect one or more energy signals responsive to the transmitting, and
• a processing module communicatively coupled to the biometric sensor and configured to determine from the received energy signals, measurements of one or more internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual, wherein the processing module is configured to derive one or more biometric markers for the individual using one or more of the measurements, wherein the portable communications device is configured to activate responsive to the processing module deriving the one or more biometric markers, and wherein activating the portable communications device comprises transmitting a monitoring packet to a receiver on the communications network, the monitoring packet one or more of the derived biometric markers and one or more of the measurements of internal, sub-epidermal characteristics of the individual, and
• a monitoring service configured to receive the monitoring packet from the portable communications device, the monitoring service comprising:
• a computer-readable storage medium comprising one or more information profiles,
• each information profile corresponding to the individual, and
• a security layer configured to associate the monitoring packet with an individual profile using the monitoring packet, wherein the monitoring service is configured to perform a monitoring function for the individual using the individual profile associated with the monitoring packet and the measurements received in the monitoring packet.

A method for acquiring biometric measurements using a portable communications device, comprising:

• measuring a plurality of biological characteristics of an individual using a biometric sensor embedded within the portable communications device, a first one of the biological characteristics corresponding to an internal, sub-epidermal characteristic of the individual;
• deriving a first biometric marker from the first one of the internal, sub-epidermal characteristic of the individual;
• and
• deriving a second biometric marker from a second one of the plurality of biological characteristics of the individual;
• activating the portable communications device responsive to deriving the first and the second biometric marker, wherein activating the portable communications device comprises using the portable communications device to transmit a monitoring packet to a monitoring service, the monitoring packet comprising measurements of the plurality of biometric characteristics of the individual, the first biometric marker, and the second biometric marker;
• identifying, by the monitoring service, an individual profile associated with the monitoring packet using one of the first and the second biometric markers;
• authenticating the monitoring packet using the first and second biometric markers;
• and
• transmitting an alert responsive to determining that one of the measurements in the monitoring packet diverges from the individual profile by more than a threshold.