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IoTFC: A Secure and Privacy Preserving Architecture for Smart Buildings

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In the pursuit of cities to be more efficient and responsive, various kind of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as actuators and sensors are used. This paper focuses on one specific IoT application - the smart building, and investigates the security and privacy issues in an integrated IoT-fog-cloud (IoTFC) smart building architecture. We consider the surveillance, maintenance, environment, and concierge use cases for smart building, in terms of their characteristics, compatible communication technology, and security and privacy requirements. IoTFC provides a comprehensive solution to the security and privacy challenges of authentication, access control, anomaly detection, data privacy and location privacy. To the best of our knowledge, IoTFC is a novel architecture, as it combines a complete set of light-weight security and privacy solutions suitable for smart buildings.

This work was partly funded by the Spanish Government through grants INCIBEC-2015-02491 “Ayudas para la excelencia de los equipos de investigaciòn avanzada en ciberseguridad”, RTI2018-095094-B-C22 “CONSENT”. This research is partially funded by the SPOTS project (RTI2018-095438-A-I00) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation & Universities and 2017 SGR 60 Funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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    Amna Qureshi, M. Shahwaiz Afaqui & Julián Salas

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Qureshi, A., Afaqui, M.S., Salas, J. (2021). IoTFC: A Secure and Privacy Preserving Architecture for Smart Buildings. In: Wang, D., Meng, W., Han, J. (eds) Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments. SPNCE 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66922-5_7

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