Remote access and networked appliance control using biometrics features

With the advent of home networks and the proliferation of broadband connectivity to homes, there is an increasing demand for a secure end-to-end mechanism to remotely access home networks and control home appliance from remote sites on the other side of the Internet. We propose an architecture for secure access to home or an organization´s networks and control of networked appliances inside a home or within an organization from a remote location. We use biometrics features and a one-time password mechanism on top of secure socket layer (SSL) for authentication. We also provide three layers of security levels for network communication, and also a mechanism for secure file accesses based on the security privileges assigned to various users is proposed The files to be accessed from the server are categorized depending on their access privileges and encrypted using a key assigned to each category.