Enforcing trust in home automation platforms

Industrialised societies are increasingly dependent on embedded systems that are getting more and more complex, dynamic, open, while interacting with a progressively more demanding and heterogeneous environment. To manage efficiently the life cycle of applications deployed in such devices, some frameworks like OSGi have emerged. Such frameworks enable flexible applications deployment but in the absence of resource isolation provided by the execution platform they weaken safety and security. This paper discusses the concept of a partitioning Java execution environment enabling multiple applications to run safely and securely over an OSGi framework, and validated in the home automation domain.