Smarter Home Controller: A Framework for Enhancing Home Security in Smart Grids

Home automation commercial technologies have been deployed as smart grids have extensively grown. Home automation raises the fact that home security needs an abundant amount of attention. In fact, with home automation, all connected appliances are in a critical condition since they are connected to the Internet. The term of cyber security can become an optimal explanation of the most concerned at this point. However, home physical security can be enhanced in the case of taking advantage of the home automation systems. This research proposes a framework that uses smart appliance preferences as a guide of these appliances statuses. Any change in any appliance status, can be considered normal or abnormal based on the appliance history. This helps the home owners to improve their home security in case there is a cyber attack, physical attack, or a potential failure. This paper describes the design of the framework and the underlying platform that is based on multitier smart grids network including the controller area network CAN. The time frame was not helpful to implement and evaluate the framework to prove that home automation systems can be used positively to provide more effective home security with low cost.