Objective
E-PASTA will specify, develop and demonstrate a trust and security platform for extended smart home environments. Such environments will allow applications such as remote control, remote security, or remote maintenance. Two types of connectivity will be assessed: through simple gateways and through services gateways where Java applications can be deployed (e.g. following the Open Services Gateway OSGi initiative). The existing experience available in the smart card industry and other small systems industries, as well as in the Internet will serve as starting point. The resulting technology specification will be promoted for standardization in the home networking and gateway community.
Objectives:
The objective of e-PASTA is to design, develop and assess a trust and security platform for smart home environments. Such environments will allow applications such as remote control, remote security, or remote maintenance.
They consist of:
- appliances, which are interconnected through local home control networks;
- gateway appliances which connect them to the Internet;
- user interfaces such as mobile thin clients (e.g. Wap mobile).
From an industrial viewpoint, the objective is to define an architecture for trust and security which:
- meets the level of trust and security which future applications will require;
- is consistent with international and national regulations;
- can be endorsed at the international level, possibly with appropriate variant capabilities;
- takes into account different solutions for connectivity such as simple gateways and services gateways;
- is scaleable for mass deployment (millions of homes, even more connected appliances);
- takes into account the full spectrum of appliances at home including very low-cost appliances with small memory footprint.
Work description:
The approach is to start from existing wealth of experience in trust and security available now in the smart card industry and in the point of sales terminal industry, as well as in the internet and then to:
- carry out a survey of smart home applications;
- carry a survey of possible connectivity architecture with several accessing approaches (voice recognition, web client, WAP client), several accessing capability (ISDN, xDSL);
- define and experiment a resulting trust and security architecture;
- demonstrate the architecture in different gateway configurations : one with a simple low-cost gateway approach and one with a services gateway approach (e.g. compliant to the OSGi initiative);
- demonstrate the architecture in the future European home control network based on EHS (European Home Systems) and its sequel Konnex;
- experiment the scalability of the architecture at the Internet level, based on access portals called POP (point of presence). Such portals should support thousands of simultaneous home interactions.
The results will be disseminated as an open technology. The resulting trust and security platform will be:
- presented to appropriate national security bodies (e.g. SCSSI in France, BSI in Germany) to seek their feedback and advice;
- presented for standardisation to strategic organisations (Konnex level, OSGi level);
- worked out in liaison with the brown goods industry (Homenet2run initiative).
Milestones:
e-PASTA will provide:
- a viable trust and security architecture suitable for standardisation;
- a security platform made up of components at the server, gateway and appliance level;
- two demonstrations based on simple gateway and OSGi gateway approaches.
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems home automation
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