Providing security and privacy in smart house through mobile cloud computing
Rafael Ribeiro, Altair O. Santin, Vilmar Abreu, João Eugênio Marynowski, Eduardo K. Viegas · 2016
Smart house allows residents to access appliances and smart grid data to reconfigure its power consumption. This paper aims to provide security and privacy by design in a smart house, isolating appliances from direct Internet access, while allowing external entities to reach power consumption features. Data acquisition, processing, and consumer profiles updates are only possible inside a smart house, using a Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). MCC enables to reconfigure consumption profile of smart houses, for instance, to avoid a potential blackout. In addition, the proposal improves security and privacy for smart houses, preventing an attacker to remotely control appliances or violating the privacy of residents by monitoring their energy consumption habits. Prototype tests showed the feasibility of our proposal, isolating the appliances and MCC mobiles, besides collecting, processing, and storing 1200 appliances attributes in 15.25 seconds while using only three mobile devices in an MCC.