Study of privacy techniques based on context sensitive environments

Abstract

The following paper aims to contribute to the scientific, technological and innovative growth in user’s privacy management in context-aware systems. Studied in various disciplines, in this document a description is made of all policies, principles, mechanisms and privacy techniques recommended by world standardization and telecommunications authorities, such as ISO, ITU, W3C and GSMA, taking into account the advantages of their implementation thanks to the exploitation of the technologies developed, like asymmetric encryption, data management software, unified access platforms, in diverse sectors of productivity, including education. Also, successful programs in smart cities and smart campus are mentioned below, national and international experiences; the adoption of the BYOD and its applications were also taken into account. Based on these, a standards scheme was proposed to establish the security techniques and mechanisms in context-aware systems that allow the increase of the level of privacy for user’s information. To supply documentary evidence of the application proposed, a pilot network was implemented using PacketFenceNAC, Open Source Type, which allowed the assessment of the standards proposed for a real urban environment; tests were executed on PCs and mobile devices. Positive results were obtained during the tests execution, being user’s authentication, VLANs group implementation and viability of BYOD program in the Smart Campus of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, UNAB.