If This Then That Research Articles

A two-factor authentication scheme against FDM attack in IFTTT based Smart Home System

Smart Home is an emerging key-element of the advantages of Internet of Things (IoT), which facilitates an individual to have control over the smart devices of his house through the Internet. However, its control should be confined to the legitimate user only, which can refrain from malicious activities. Internet services like IFTTT (If This Then That) integrate heterogeneous Smart Home devices and allow the user to customize Smart Home configurations via IFTTT recipes. Earlier researches have suggested an attack scenario based on Feature-Distributed Malware (FDM), where the malware can compromise the victim’s IFTTT account and as a result the attacker can manipulate the recipes from his own device. This paper proposes a secure IFTTT-based Smart Home framework by incorporating suitable captcha-based One Time Password (OTP) authentication scheme and Physical Unclonable Function (PUF). A suitable adversarial model has been used to evaluate the security of the framework.

RuleSelector

Modern smartphones and ubiquitous computing systems collect a wealth of context data from users. Conditional action rules, as popularized by the IFTTT (If-This-Then-That) platform, are a popular way for users to automate frequently repeated tasks or receive smart reminders, due to the intelligibility and control that rules provide to users. A key drawback of IFTTT systems is that they place the burden of manually specifying action rules on the user. While multiple rule mining algorithms have been proposed in existing work to automatically discover action rules, they generate hundreds of action rules, and the problem of how to present a small subset of rules to smartphone users and allow them to interactively select action rules remains unsolved. In this work, we take the first step towards solving this problem by designing and implementing RuleSelector, the first interactive rule selection tool to allow smartphone users to browse, modify, and select action rules from a small set of summarized rules presented to the user. We propose novel rule selection metrics to address the needs of smartphone users, and analyze the performance of RuleSelector using data from 200 users. We also perform a qualitative user study in order to evaluate how users use the RuleSelector tool and perceive the selected rules, and present the insights gained and design recommendations for future rule selection systems. Our users rated the selected rules from useful to very useful, and an important finding of our study is that users prefer an interactive rule selection system such as RuleSelector that automatically suggests rules, but allows users to select and modify the suggested rules. Finally, we examine the promise of RuleSelector in other ubiquitous computing systems such as smart homes and smart TVs by applying our tool to public context datasets from these domains.

Design and Development of Smart Aquaculture System Based on IFTTT Model and Cloud Integration

The internet of things technology (IoT) is growing very rapidly. IoT implementation has been conducted in several sectors. One of them is for aquaculture. For the traditional farmers, they face problems for monitoring water quality and the way to increase the quality of the water quickly and efficiently. This paper presents a real-time monitoring and controlling system for aquaculture based on If This Then That (IFTTT) model and cloud integration. This system was composed of smart sensor module which supports modularity, smart aeration system for controlling system, local network system, cloud computing system and client visualization data. In order to monitor the water condition, we collect the data from smart sensor module. Smart sensor module consists of sensor dissolved oxygen, potential of hydrogen, water temperature and water level. The components of smart aeration system are microcontroller NodeMCU v3, relay, power supply, and propeller that can produce oxygen. The system could set the IFTTT rules for the ideal water condition for the pond in any kinds of aquaculture based on its needs through the web and android application. The experimental result shows that use IFTTT model makes the aquaculture monitoring system more customizable, expandable and dynamic.

Home Automation Device Protocol (HADP): A Protocol Standard for Unified Device Interactions

Daily activities have become more efficient and convenient with home automation. There are many different home automation devices in the market for consumers to enjoy their home for being smarter, resourceful, and remotely accessible. However, current home automation protocols lack extensibility and compatibility. In this paper, we propose a protocol standard for home automation system called Home Automation Device Protocol (HADP). This protocol standard aims for the interoperability of home automation devices across different platforms. Based on the IFTTT (IF-This-Then-That) model, we define a set of device communication protocols where devices’ triggers and actions are combined to generate and manage interactions through a central node. The proposed protocol standard offers low power consumption and low bandwidth requirements using the minimum data packets to trigger an action on a home automation device. The protocol supports various communication mediums such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, ZigBee IP, 6LoWPAN, IEEE 802.15.4 standards, and Ethernet orany network layer supporting IPv6 protocol.

Automate the Internet With “If This Then That” (IFTTT)

It is difficult to explain If This Then That (IFTTT), a Web service that helps connect other Web services to each other. On its own, IFTTT (https://ifttt.com) does not do anything. Instead, it serv...