Security and Privacy of Smart Homes : Issues and Solutions

• The current discussion and adoption of new technologies such as Internet of Things and smart technologies, like smart homes, have blossomed over the last decade. The user-centric aspect plays a vital role in the development of smart homes, since its spread and usage is fundamentally depending on people adopting new technologies into their normal everyday lives. This chapter contributes to raising our understanding of the security and privacy challenges and solutions that exist within smart homes. It first investigates various dimensions of information security and privacy in order to build a framework to analyze actual or perceived security and privacy issues that can arise from new technologies like smart homes. The chapter presents what security techniques and mechanisms are available to address these. Finally, it discusses what the future might hold in terms of security and privacy of smart homes, followed by a section highlighting the contributions of this chapter.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Information Systems (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Internet of Things

privacy challenges

privacy techniques

security techniques

smart homes

Information Systems

Informationssystem (IS)

Information systems

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