A secure scheme for a smart house based on Cloud of Things (CoT)

Many systems and technologies are involved with smart housing including communication technology, IT systems, actuators, sensors and advanced monitoring building blocks. The devices powering smart homes are systems implanted in appliances that are sensor-based and network-enabled. The possibility of accessing appliances through the Internet is referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). A Cloud of Things (CoT) virtualizes the IoT and provides monitoring and visualization. The emerging CoT services in smart housing will enable a new generation of systems and intelligent use of a collection of applications that can be accessed in real time. Despite its benefits, CoT may also be subject to some security and privacy issues. In this paper, we propose a secure scheme for a smart house based on CoT. Our scheme defines how a connected home device is serviced from the CoT to bring it into the secure zone of the network operation infrastructure. Specifically, we illustrate how the security requirements are administered from the CoT and discuss a secure scheme for key management for smart housing.