Secure Smart Home Using Open Security Intelligence Systems

The idea of creating smart homes is not a new one, it has been around since the early 1900s. However, the need to have more automated, proactive, and sustainable smart home, requires a high dependency on the internet, which created a new challenge of information security issues in addition to physical security issues that should be solved recently. In this paper, we propose a prototype of smart home that ensures the physical and cyber security of the systems of the designed smart home. In our prototype, we support the design of open system where the owner can select multi-vendor of the smart home to deploy smart services and functions at home, while ensure the security using System Incident and Event Monitoring systems. Our prototype uses security intelligence to improve the responsive way to both physical and cyber security threats and risks. The requirements of the proposed system have been collected in collaboration with Dubai Electrical and Water Authority (DEWA).