TY  - JOUR
ID  - Soft Computing: Volume 18, Issue 9 (2014), Page 1659-1674
T1  - A soft computing based location-aware access control for smart buildings
A1  - Jara, Antonio J
A1  - Hernandez, Jose Luis
A1  - Moreno, Victoria
A1  - Skarmeta, A
JA  - Soft Computing
Y1  - 2014
VL  - 18
IS  - 9
SP  - 1659
EP  - 1674
SN  - 1432-7643
UR  - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00500-014-1278-9
M2  - doi: 10.1007/s00500-014-1278-9
KW  - Internet of things Smart buildings Indoor localization Security services Distributed access control Capability
N2  - The evolution of wireless communications and pervasive computing is transforming current physical spaces into real smart environments. These emerging scenarios are expected to be composed by a potentially huge amount of heterogeneous smart objects which can be remotely accessed by users via their mobile devices anytime, anywhere. In this paper, we propose a distributed location-aware access control mechanism and its application in the smart building context. Our approach is based on an access control engine embedded into smart objects, which are responsible to make authorization decisions by considering both user location data and access credentials. User location data are estimated using a novel indoor localization system based on magnetic field data sent by user through her personal phone. This localization system implements a combination of soft computing techniques over the data collected by smartphones. Therefore, our location-aware access control mechanism does not require any intermediate entity, providing the benefits of a decentralized approach for smart environments. From the results obtained, we can consider our proposal as a promising approach to tackle the challenging security requirements of typical pervasive environments.
M1  - Impact Factor JCR - 2013: 1.304
ER  -