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A soft computing based location-aware access control for smart buildings

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The evolution of wireless communications and pervasive computing is transforming current physical spaces into real smart environments. These emerging scenarios are expected to be composed by a potentially huge amount of heterogeneous smart objects which can be remotely accessed by users via their mobile devices anytime, anywhere. In this paper, we propose a distributed location-aware access control mechanism and its application in the smart building context. Our approach is based on an access control engine embedded into smart objects, which are responsible to make authorization decisions by considering both user location data and access credentials. User location data are estimated using a novel indoor localization system based on magnetic field data sent by user through her personal phone. This localization system implements a combination of soft computing techniques over the data collected by smartphones. Therefore, our location-aware access control mechanism does not require any intermediate entity, providing the benefits of a decentralized approach for smart environments. From the results obtained, we can consider our proposal as a promising approach to tackle the challenging security requirements of typical pervasive environments.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been sponsored by European Commission through the FP7-IoT6-288455 and FP7-SOCIOTAL-609112 EU Projects, and the Spanish Seneca Foundation by means of the Excellence Researching Group Program (04552/GERM/06) and the FPI program (Grant 15493/FPI/10).

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  1. Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    José L. Hernández, M. Victoria Moreno & Antonio F. Skarmeta

  2. Institute of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland

    Antonio J. Jara

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Hernández, J.L., Moreno, M.V., Jara, A.J. et al. A soft computing based location-aware access control for smart buildings. Soft Comput 18, 1659–1674 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1278-9

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