iHome: secure smart home management in the cloud and the fogiHome: secure smart home management in the cloud and the fog Κεφάλαιο σε Βιβλίο Book Chapter 2022-07-152020enThe ideas for smart city use cases and research challenges are inspired by teamwork in preparing the 1IoT and ADON project proposals submitted for funding in “Horizon 2020” program of the EU. We are grateful to many excellent partners across the EU for their cooperation.iHome is a novel Future Internet (FI) service for data collection from IoT devices in an automatic, generalized and modular way. Building upon principles of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) design and driven by the key requirements of today’s IoT systems for adaptability, low-cost and scalability, iHome architecture is modular and expandable. iHome is implemented in OpenStack and FIWARE13, an open-source distributed cloud infrastructure funded by the European Union (EU). iHome encompasses IoT-A [23,3] design principles in an attempt to develop an innovative IoT platform that supports generic services and IoT devices (i.e. independent of connectivity and not coupled to specific IoT protocols). IoT-A proposes an Architecture Reference Model (ARM) defining the principles and guidelines for generating IoT architectures, providing the means to connect vertically closed systems both, at the communication layer (i.e. where IoT devices interact with the system) and the service layer (i.e. where services are provided).iHome is a smart home management service that runs in the cloud. The service addresses the need of users to monitor and control their homes remotely provided that the home devices are “smart” themselves (i.e. they can be connected to the internet and operated remotely). Home devices transmit their identifier, measurements and status to a fog node and from there to the cloud. To mitigate concerns in regards to data protection, response time and communication delays in delivering large amounts of data to the cloud, all services for the home are realized within a fog node installed at home. This information becomes available to registered users in the cloud based on subscriptions (i.e. to users authorized to review and respond to this information). User access rights are defined based on user roles (i.e. cloud administrators, home moderators and residents). Besides data publication and subscription services, an innovative feature of iHome, is a rule-based event management service which forwards alerts to subscribed users for responding to critical events (i.e. incidents of fire, malfunctioning appliances at home). iHome is implemented based on principles of Service Oriented Architecture design as a composition of RESTful services.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Advances in Parallel ComputingAdvances in Edge Computing: Massive Parallel Processing and Applications Petrakis Evripidis Πετρακης Ευριπιδης Myrizakis Georgios Μυριζακης Γεωργιος IOS Press Authorization Cloud computing Event Internet of Things Security Service oriented architecture Smart home