Making home automation communications secure

Abstract

New communications technology offers numerous benefits, but it also opens home automation to many security threats. To protect against these threats within the limited resources of a typical home automation system, we have developed a family of products based on Honeywell's Global Home Server (GHS), a remote Web site that provides secure Internet access and other services to client installations. A network security system such as GHS can leverage limited resources to provide confidentiality, authentication, authorization and integrity for remote monitoring and control of home automation devices.