Applying an Energy-Aware Security Mechanism in Healthcare Internet of Things

The security risks associated with healthcare Internet of things (HIoT) devices and medical devices includes patient privacy, data confidentiality, and data security. Insecure medical devices allow hackers to infiltrate systems and control medical devices to potentially harm patients and hospitals. HIoT devices have computational and memory limitations, energy limitations, mobility and scalability limitations. Therefore, securing HIoT devices is immensely aggravated due to their resource constrained. Finding a security solution that minimizes resource consumption and thus maximizes security performance is a challenging task in HIoT. This paper proposes adaptive security mechanism that is considering energy level of HIoT devices. This energy-efficient security mechanism considers the residual energy to apply security mechanism and improve lifetime of HIoT devices.