Study of smart home communication protocol's and security & privacy aspects

Abstract

The IoT (Internet-of-Things) make possible the physical things or home appliances or hand held devices or objects (e.g., smart phones, TVs, cars) can be interconnected by means of suitable communication protocols and information technology infrastructure to share the data to each other and access a range of applications and services like data storage, analytics. In current scenario, application of IoT & its supporting tools and techniques in smart home implementation is one of the major area where many big companies like Google, Amazon etc are investing huge amount of money and initiated the research for better comfort security & safety at home. This paper will discuss about smart homes and its components, application of Internet of Things in smart homes, communication protocol details applicable for smart home devices communication, security flaws in existing protocols of communication for IoT enabled hardware and proposed secure protocol with desirable attributes for secure communication protocol for smart homes using IoT and it can interoperate and compatible with existing protocols.