Creating Smart Environments: Analysis of Improving Security on Smart Homes

Abstract

The more we immerse ourselves in the 'Digital Transformation', social and business, the more the new technologies that are launched to the market arise. Thinking about the concept of 'housing of the future', 'smart environments' or 'autonomous cars' may seem somewhat distant or perhaps very few people enjoy, but it is not. Above all, it is a phenomenon that is happening thanks to the development of the Internet of Things (IoT). The development of intelligent devices has been changing the behavioral patterns of users, such as using smart devices for everything to collect information that we rarely knew. However, with the introduction of IoT, we will be experiencing giant challenges to secure and protect its advanced information services due to the significant increase of the cyber-attacks, and number of interconnected resources that can be a double-edged sword. The purpose of this paper is to present a solution to this problem implementing a smart hub, complemented with an analytical review of security in all the devices interconnected focused in smart homes. It also presents how vulnerable and exposed we are with the interconnection of all our devices, identifying limitations and research challenges.