Design and Implementation of Secured Cloud-Based Remote Home Access Through an Application for Smart Infrastructure

Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) is one of the most swiftly growing technologies predominantly and prevalently existing, creating a profound impact on the quality of living with each passing day. It encircles newer and better technologies such as smart cities, smart electric grids, remote smart homes. These technologies are emanating from the integration of the existing systems with the physical world that creates much better ones. Remote home access (RHA) is one of the emerging concepts of IoT enabled smart homes. Remote home access service is a system by means of which a user can remotely monitor the status of his devices and control them as well even from outside his/her home. This paper deals with the design and implementation of a system in which the requests of the users generated within the home or outside can intelligently be managed and controlled by cloud-based services. The functionalities of the system that is proposed here are classified into various service groups such as monitoring, controlling, security, authenticating, authorizing, managing, logging, and user groups. As a part of the RHA architecture, the connectivity between the cloud and the user application is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to prevent the infringement of user’s privacy and the authentication is afforded based on Open Authorization 2.0 (OAuth 2.0) framework for better security.