Lightweight Middleware-Based ZigBee Security in Building Energy Management System

Abstract

Sensor networks have effects on various fields as usage of these increases. Building Energy Management System is one of the representative examples. Moreover, a variety of researches are added to the BEMS, and ZigBee is one of them. Various communication interfaces are used and tested but ZigBee security is relatively in an initial step. Furthermore, if heavyweight middleware is used in ZigBee networks, it could have influence on total system’s performance. In this paper, we propose lightweight middleware to minimize load on the performance and provide security services.

This research was supported by the MKE(The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the HNRC(Home Network Research Center) –ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA-2010-C1090-1011–0010) and by the Human Resources Development of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (20104010100570) and by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy(MKE) and Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(KIAT) through the Research and Development for Regional Industry.