In 2015 there were 83 million smart devices in people's homes. This number is expected to grow to 193 million devices by 2020.[43][159] In 2023, the number of connected IoT devices will reach 16.6 billion.[160].
Smart home IoT devices are notorious security risks with outdated firmware and poor patching habits. Placing them on a dedicated VLAN with strict firewall rules prevents a compromised device from reaching your personal computers, NAS, or sensitive data. This guide covers VLAN architecture design, implementation on both UniFi and OpenWrt, and validation testing.
The smart home network architecture works by connecting all the smart devices in your home to a central hub, typically a router. The devices communicate with each other and with the hub using wireless communication protocols like Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or Z-Wave.
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2. Improved Smart home network architecture. Fig. 3. Representations of Wang-Scheme for device-server authentication.The devices, in this case, can be a smartphone, a smartwatch or even a car with embedded a system on a chip (SoC) allowing it to be "smart". ...
