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Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks: Secure Applications and Remote Distribution of FW Updates with Key Management on WSN

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Nearly 70 % of the average household utility bill could be influenced by Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application to temperature and lighting. Home and building owners can use interactive energy management tools to create energy management profiles that are triggered by certain established consumption rates. However, security remains a critical issue. In this chapter, we will present how the new security features (both on hardware and software level) introduces improvements in the overall WSN picture, and we will explain with detail the new OTAP procedure. Furthermore, we will state all the new possibilities opened for Low Power WSN based on the enhancement of security, being a good candidate for applications restricted to much more powerful devices.

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    Juan Rico & Juan Sancho

  2. University of Cantabria, ETSIIT, Avda. de los Castros, 39005, Santander, Spain

    Álvaro Díaz, Javier González & Pablo Sánchez

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    Bibiana Lorente Alvarez & Luis Andres Cardona Cardona

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    Carles Ferrer Ramis

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Rico, J. et al. (2015). Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks: Secure Applications and Remote Distribution of FW Updates with Key Management on WSN. In: Candaele, B., Soudris, D., Anagnostopoulos, I. (eds) Trusted Computing for Embedded Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09420-5_5

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