Smart buildings can be managed following a layered and modular approach in order to provide a high-grade of interoperability
throughout the different involved components. This section starts providing an overview of the main conceptual
layers required to manage smart buildings environments, as well as the mapping to functional groups and components of
ARM. Section 3.2 presents our ARM-compliant security framework, which is being implemented and tested in the City explorer
platform under the scope of the EU FP7 SMARTIE project.4 And finally, Section 3.3 provides an overview of the main
interactions between components to provide a secure provisioning of services on smart building scenarios.