Security in Smart Home Environment

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Author(s): Georgios Mantas (University of Patras, Greece), Dimitrios Lymberopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)and Nikos Komninos (Athens Information Technology, Greece)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 22
Source title: Wireless Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living and Healthcare: Systems and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Athina Lazakidou (University of Peloponnese, Greece), Konstantinos Siassiakos (University of Piraeus, Greece)and Konstantinos Ioannou (University of Patras, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-805-0.ch010

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medical Technologies / Medicine & Healthcare

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This chapter presents the concept of Smart Home, describes the Smart Home networking technologies and discusses the main issues for ensuring security in a Smart Home environment. Nowadays, the integration of current communication and information technologies within the dwelling has led to the emergence of Smart Homes. These technologies facilitate the building of Smart Home environments in which devices and systems can communicate with each other and can be controlled automatically in order to interact with the household members and improve the quality of their life. However, the nature of Smart Home environment, the fact that it is always connected to the outside world via Internet and the open security back doors derived from the household members raise many security concerns. Finally, by reviewing the existing literature regarding Smart Homes and security issues that exist in Smart Home environments, the authors envisage to provide a base to broaden the research in Smart Home security.

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