Sensing Enabled Capabilities for Access Control Management: IoT as an Enabler for the Advanced Management of Access Control

Current knowledge and assets that support organizations competitiveness must be protected. This protection is highly dependent on a proper access control management. Unfortunately, traditional access control management approaches are rigid and isolated, constrained by proprietary requirements not easily interoperable. In this article, the ACIO framework is presented and described. It provides a flexible, open, fluid and collaborative middleware for building access control management systems, based on the Sensing Enabled Access Control (SEAC) concept. This framework establishes the principles allowing the development of an access control management system that copes with today organization's needs. The paper also provides a description of a real use case raised to validate the framework, as well as the laboratory results supporting its scalability.