A novel approach for generic home emergency management and remote monitoring. (27th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tiberkak, Allal; Lemlouma, Tayeb; Belkhir, Abdelkader; Bouabdallah, Ahmed; Hentout, Abdelfetah
• Is Part Of: Software, practice & experience. Volume 48:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 761
• Page End: 774
• Publication Date: 2017-11-27
• Subjects: contextual role–based access control -- extended finite‐state machine -- home emergency management system -- remote patient monitoring -- smart home security and privacy -- web real‐time communication; Computer software -- Periodicals; Computer programming -- Periodicals; Computer programs -- Periodicals; 005.3
• DOI: 10.1002/spe.2553
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0038-0644

Abstract

Summary: This paper presents a novel home emergency management system (HEMS) for managing home emergency situations. The proposed solution is a generic and based on normalized technologies. First, we have identified a set of requirements that a robust HEMS should satisfy (interoperability, security, mobility, etc). Then, we have opted for an extended finite‐state machine to detect and manage emergency situations. We also adopted WebRTC to enable communication in an interoperable manner. For securing our HEMS, we have used HTTPS, password, contextual role–based access control, and we have finally installed all the public servers into a protected area. The result obtained from the test‐bed demonstrates that the proposed HEMS fills all the listed requirements. Furthermore, it gives very interesting results in terms of round‐trip delay time and scalability.