A Flexible and Centralized Approach for Access Control in Heterogeneous IoT Environment

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Since several years, a new field of computer science is explored. This one makes use of the fast decrease of electronic chips size and cost in order to create physical objects named Things (Atzori, Iera, & Morabito, 2010) that embed computing power and that are capable to operate on the physical as well as the numerical world. The computing power of these Things makes them able to communicate across the internet, allowing users to control their environment through applications (for instance, heating of a house can be control with phone applications).

Although these capabilities open a wide new area of innovation, they also create new security issues (Weber, 2010) that must be addressed for the safety of users (it would not be desirable, for instance, for a connected domestic security camera to be directly accessible from the internet).