Towards a resilient smart home

Tam Thanh Doan, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Shuai Li, Sepideh Avizheh, K. Muni Venkateswarlu, Philip W.L. Fong

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Abstract

Today's Smart Home platforms such as Samsung SmartThings and Amazon AWS IoT are primarily cloud based: devices in the home sense the environment and send the collected data, directly or through a hub, to the cloud. Cloud runs various applications and analytics on the collected data, and generates commands according to the users' specifications that are sent to the actuators to control the environment. The role of the hub in this setup is effectively message passing between the devices and the cloud, while the required analytics, computation, and control are all performed by the cloud. We ask the following question: what if the cloud is not available? This can happen not only by accident or natural causes, but also due to targeted attacks. We discuss possible effects of such unavailability on the functionalities that are commonly available in smart homes, including security and safety related services as well as support for health and well-being of home users, and propose RES-Hub, a hub that can provide the required functionalities when the cloud is unavailable. During the normal functioning of the system, RES-Hub will receive regular status updates from cloud, and will use this information to continue to provide the user specified services when it detects the cloud is down.We describe an IoTivitybased software architecture that is used to implement RES-Hub in a flexible and expendable way and discuss our implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIoT S and P 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on IoT Security and Privacy, Part of SIGCOMM 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages15-21
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450359054
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Aug 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Internet-of-Things Security and Privacy, IoT S and P 2018 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 20 Aug 2018 → …

Publication series

NameIoT S and P 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on IoT Security and Privacy, Part of SIGCOMM 2018

Conference

Conference2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on the Internet-of-Things Security and Privacy, IoT S and P 2018
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period20/08/18 → …

Keywords

  • IoT Security
  • Smart home resiliency
  • Smart home security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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