Cybersecurity in Smart Homes

1Home Automation Solutions for SecureWSN

Corinna SCHMITT¹ and Marvin WEBER²

¹Research Institute CODE, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

²MNM-Team, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany

Today, many different devices are connected and form small networks that are an integral part of the Internet of Things (IoT) (Rose et al. 2015; ITU 2016). Such networks are typically designed for individual solutions to serve a particular purpose. In the private sector, the most common application of such networks are seen in smart home scenarios. Constrained devices (Bormann et al. 2020) are used to monitor environmental data in order to trigger actions depending on analysis results. Well-known examples are closing/opening windows and shades or activating/deactivating lights and fans. In literature such scenarios are counted to the IoT subarea of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and due to a close impact to the residents of homes a secure environments is essential.

SecureWSNs (Schmitt 2020) are a powerful framework supporting different hardware and operating systems in the data collection process. Furthermore, they provide many services to residents in order for them to monitor environmental data (e.g. temperature, brightness, and humidity) within their home. To control network access, a fine-grained access management solution is integrated alongside resource-specific security protocols for required communication of components. Until now the system only supports ...