Improving Home Automation Security; Integrating Device Fingerprinting Into Smart Home

Home Automation Environment Security

Adequate security is a key requirement for home automation environments. Home Automation products are relatively new to the marketplace and many consumers are relatively unaware of the risks associated with home networks and remote management of these devices. Two key technologies involved in home networking and automation are Bluetooth and Jini. These technologies are littered with security ri...

Smart Documents for Home Automation

This work describes the use of well known computer applications to enable smart home users to monitor and control their homes using customized documents. Middleware written in applescript and perl-cgi was used to integrate the computer applications with the OpenWebNet protocol used in home automation. The events triggered by the applications are easily log by web and mail servers to facilitate ...

Improving Home Automation by Discovering Regularly Occurring Device Usage Patterns

The data stream captured by recording inhabitantdevice interactions in an environment can be mined to discover significant patterns, which an intelligent agent could use to automate device interactions. However, this knowledge discovery problem is complicated by several challenges, such as excessive noise in the data, data that does not naturally exist as transactions, a need to operate in real...

Security in Smart Home Environment

Over the last decades the Smart Home development is a continuously evolving field that faces exceptional challenges. However, the recent advances in information and communications technologies have led the Smart Home development in a good level of maturity. A Smart Home is a living environment that incorporates the appropriate technology, called Smart Home technology, to meet the resident goals...

Selected Home Automation and Home Security Realizations: An Improved Architecture