Usable Security Mechanisms in Smart Building

Smart building becomes popular these years. It enables many interesting applications, for example, elderly monitoring and remote healthcare. Sensitive information protection in the smart building system is always required, security is thus one important component in such system. So far, many security mechanisms are proposed, however, the study on the balance of security and usability is still lacking. In this paper, we focus on usable security mechanisms in smart building. In particular, usable authentication mechanisms and usable data privacy protection methods are studied.