Device and User Management for Smart Homes

In the context of smart homes, owners with no technical expertise will need to manage users and devices with various features to define who is allowed to use, or not, each smart device. To help owners perform this task, we designed a management framework that uses real life attributes and an attribute-based access control model (ABAC) to define access control policies. We built a prototype of the framework and found that users easily understand and use it to define access control policies for smart homes.