Remote Management and Secure Application Development for Pervasive Home Systems Using JASON

In a modern house, the number of electronic devices keeps increasing. More and more of these devices become interconnected, to provide new services. And they start disappearing in the environment, forming a truly pervasive home system. The embedded devices in such pervasive networks are usually owned and managed by several entities with conflicting interests. This makes secure remote management of such devices a challenging task. Software development to implement such services need to solve complex security problems and need to be aware of the large spread of capabilities among the different devices. We present ongoing research to apply and extend the JASON architecture to handle such remote management and secure software development issues.