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- research-articleAugust 2023
Security Analysis of the KNX Smart Building Protocol
ARES '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and SecurityAugust 2023, Article No.: 87, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3600160.3605167KNX is a protocol for smart building automation, e.g., for automated heating, air conditioning, or lighting. This paper analyses and evaluates state-of-the-art KNX devices from manufacturers Merten, Gira and Siemens with respect to security. On the one ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Security of Building Automation and Control Systems: Survey and future research directions
Computers and Security (CSEC), Volume 112, Issue CJan 2022https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2021.102527AbstractBuilding Automation and Control Systems (BACS) designate the mechanisms that are used to automate buildings’ operations such as climate control, lightning and access control. As such, traditional BACS encompass extensively automated ...
- ArticleJuly 2021
Framework for Controlling KNX Devices Based on Gestures
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Media, Learning and Assistive EnvironmentsJul 2021, Pages 507–518https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78095-1_37AbstractThe demand for comfort and versatility in the management of different types of devices in a home or office is exponentially increasing. More and more people want a comfortable environment for leisure or work, something practical, sustainable and ...
- research-articleApril 2019
Emulating home automation installations through component-based web technology
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 93, Issue CApr 2019, Pages 777–791https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.09.062AbstractThe Internet of Things mechanisms enable the management of home environments since they can be developed as IoT based information systems. From standard smart homes to automated buildings, including other kind of domotics and inmotics ...
Highlights- A mechanism for emulating home environments using the web technology is proposed.
- articleDecember 2017
Monitoring of the daily living activities in smart home care
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), Volume 7, Issue 1December 2017, Article No.: 113, Pages 1–34https://doi.org/10.1186/s13673-017-0113-6One of the key requirements for technological systems that are used to secure independent housing for seniors in their home environment is monitoring of daily living activities (ADL), their classification, and recognition of routine daily patterns and ...
- research-articleNovember 2016
Designing the Next Generation of Home Automation Combining IoT and Robotic Technologies
- Konstantinos Christopoulos,
- Alexandros Spournias,
- Theofanis Orfanoudakis,
- Christos Antonopoulos,
- Nikolaos Voros
PCI '16: Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on InformaticsNovember 2016, Article No.: 10, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3003733.3003789Home Automation Systems comprises a rapidly evolving research domain as well as a commercial filed. This is due to, on one hand, the increasing demands for Ambient Assisted Living environment, 24/7 monitoring and security, comfort control, power ...
- ArticleNovember 2014
Parameter-Based Mechanism for Unifying User Interaction, Applications and Communication Protocols
- Jie Song,
- Silvia Calatrava Sierra,
- Jaime Caffarel Rodríguez,
- Jorge Martín Perandones,
- Guillermo del Campo Jiménez,
- Jorge Olloqui Buján,
- Rocío Martínez García,
- Asunción Santamaría Galdón
AIMS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and SimulationNovember 2014, Pages 131–136https://doi.org/10.1109/AIMS.2014.42In the smart building control industry, creating a platform to integrate different communication protocols and ease the interaction between users and devices is becoming increasingly important. BATMP is a platform designed to achieve this goal. In this ...
- tutorialSeptember 2014
A Practical Attack Against a KNX-based Building Automation System
ICS-CSR 2014: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2014September 2014, Pages 53–60https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ics-csr2014.7Building automation systems rely heavily on general-purpose computers and communication protocols, which are often affected by security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we first analyze the attack surface of a real building automation system - based on ...
- ArticleNovember 2012
Who Refuses to Wash Hands? Privacy Issues in Modern House Installation Networks
BWCCA '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Seventh International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and ApplicationsNovember 2012, Pages 271–277https://doi.org/10.1109/BWCCA.2012.51Modern buildings are often equipped with universal bus systems. The purpose of these bus systems is to control the functions of houses such as lighting, climate control, and heating. In this paper we present a case study that shows how privacy issues ...
- articleMarch 2012
Modelling and analysing congestion in KNXnet/IP
Computer Standards & Interfaces (CSAI), Volume 34, Issue 3March, 2012, Pages 305–313https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2011.10.005The KNX standard for home and building automation has been recently updated by the definition of KNXnet/IP system. It allows integration of different KNX networks through IP using the KNXnet/IP Router. Due to the limited transmission speeds of the KNX, ...
- ArticleNovember 2011
Comparison of health measures to movement data in aware homes
AmI'11: Proceedings of the Second international conference on Ambient IntelligenceNovember 2011, Pages 290–294https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_39Detecting wellness in older adults with just ambient sensors is a challenging and difficult task, one that can only be address with large volumes of detailed annotated data and a diverse participant base. Presented here are early results comparing ...
- ArticleJuly 2011
Ensuring Comfort in Office Buildings: Designing a KNX Monitoring and Control System
IE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent EnvironmentsJuly 2011, Pages 222–229https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.29As a first stage task, this paper presents the study on what represents and how it is possible to ensure the indoor office comfort, which are the most important types of comfort (thermal, visual, acoustic, air quality, etc.) and how each of them could ...
- ArticleNovember 2010
Supervision and Regulation of Home Automation Systems with Smartphones
EMS '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Fourth UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modeling and SimulationNovember 2010, Pages 444–448https://doi.org/10.1109/EMS.2010.80Home automation and building services systems are integrated in many homes and buildings to meet the needs of comfort, security and efficiency of the customers. On the other hand, mobile devices such as handheld devices and smart phones are providing ...
- ArticleJune 2009
DNAX-BCU: An Un-clonable Cost-conscious SoPC Implementation for Bus Coupling Units of the European Installation Bus
ICDCSW '09: Proceedings of the 2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems WorkshopsJune 2009, Pages 472–475https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCSW.2009.39In this article a Bus Coupling Unit KNX/EIB standard for Building Automation Systems is presented. The proposed architecture exploits the flexility and computation power of the reconfigurable devices to overcome the limitations of the embedded platform ...
- ArticleSeptember 2008
Home Automation with ZigBee
NEW2AN '08 / ruSMART '08: Proceedings of the 8th international conference, NEW2AN and 1st Russian Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced NetworkingSeptember 2008, Pages 263–270https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85500-2_26This article discusses a topic of home automation, also called domotics, and provides an overview of state-of-the-art in communication protocols for this application area. Comparitive analysis for different networking standards and communication media ...