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Democratizing Authority in the Built Environment

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Michael P. Andersen,

David E. Culler,

Randy KatzAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 14, Issue 3-4

Article No.: 17, Pages 1 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/3199665

Published: 04 December 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Operating systems and applications in the built environment have relied upon central authorization and management mechanisms that restrict their scalability, especially with respect to administrative overhead. We propose a new set of primitives encompassing syndication, security, and service execution that unifies the management of applications and services across the built environment, while enabling participants to individually delegate privilege across multiple administrative domains with no loss of security or manageability. We show how to leverage a decentralized authorization syndication platform to extend the design of building operating systems beyond the single administrative domain of a building. The authorization system leveraged is based on blockchain smart contracts to permit decentralized and democratized delegation of authorization without central trust. Upon this, a publish/subscribe syndication tier and a containerized service execution environment are constructed. Combined, these mechanisms solve problems of delegation, federation, device protection and service execution that arise throughout the built environment. We leverage a high-fidelity city-scale emulation to verify the scalability of the authorization tier, and briefly describe a prototypical democratized operating system for the built environment using this foundation.

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Democratizing Authority in the Built Environment
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
2. Security and privacy
  1. Security services

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Volume 14, Issue 3-4

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November 2018

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DOI:10.1145/3294070

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Published: 04 December 2018

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Received: 01 January 2018

Published in TOSN Volume 14, Issue 3-4

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