Making home automation communications secure

Author

Bergstrom, Peter ; Driscoll, Kevin ; Kimball, John

Volume

34

Issue

10

fYear

2001

fDate

10/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

56

Abstract

New communications technology offers numerous benefits, but it also opens home automation to many security threats. To protect against these threats within the limited resources of a typical home automation system, we have developed a family of products based on Honeywell´s Global Home Server (GHS), a remote Web site that provides secure Internet access and other services to client installations. A network security system such as GHS can leverage limited resources to provide confidentiality, authentication, authorization and integrity for remote monitoring and control of home automation devices

Keywords

Internet; authorisation; computerised monitoring; data integrity; data privacy; file servers; home automation; message authentication; system monitoring; telecommunication security; Honeywell Global Home Server; authentication; authorization; client installations; confidentiality; data integrity; home automation communications technology; home automation device control; limited resources; network security system; remote Web site; remote monitoring; secure Internet access; security threats; Authentication; Authorization; Communication system security; Communications technology; Home automation; Network servers; Protection; Remote monitoring; Web and internet services; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.955099

Filename

955099