Securing a Smart Home Network using Voice Biometric

ABSTRACT The emerging generation of Wireless Sensor Networks, is the Internet of Things. This system is linking physical objects, directly to the Internet using microcontrollers or microprocessors. Visualizing, the next generation internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) provides the infrastructure of pervasive wireless sensing and identification systems with billions of uniquely identifiable intelligent devices to form a ubiquitous environment. The World Wide Web provides great opportunities for data collection and analysis, as well as, for interoperability of objects, that cannot be connected to the same local area network. This network of devices also known as ubiquitous computing, however, poses a serious question of security in such a large number of devices. This paper focuses on the security aspect and a viable method of providing secured access and operation to the users, in such kind of a network as defined. A biometric approach based on Voice Recognition and Speech Recognition is suggested which forms a dual layer of security and authentication for each user, the first for the identification of the user to belong to the network and the other for accessing the various devices. Keywords: Internet of Things, Sensor Networks, Pervasive Computing, Biometric, Voice Recognition.