SIMON Lightweight Encryption Benchmarking on Wireless Aquascape Preservation

In pervasive computing, the human-computer interaction emphasizes on information and communication technology and user experience. Now it is possible to communicate scientific and engineering technique informally through leisure activities, for instance aquascaping. It is necessary to keep the aquascape environment fresh and healthy, and the fish have to be feed regularly. This paper proposes an autonomous aquascape preservation system based on Arduino controller connected to a remote Android smartphone. However, it is widely known that the wireless communication is not as reliable as the wired counterpart. An unauthorized party should not be able to take control of the wireless aquascape preservation system. SIMON lightweight cryptography is used to tackle security issues in constrained devices. From experiments result, the DS18B20 sensor is able to measure aquascape temperature precisely with approximately 0.5% tolerance. The Android graphical user interface application is user-friendly. Moreover, the SIMON lightweight encryption SIMON64/128 is able to secure wireless communication channel efficiently with small hardware footprints.