IoT-security in Public
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB - RISE SICS Lund |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 960 980 |
| Project duration | November 2018 - March 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Collaboration projects in cybersecurity and digital infrastructure |
Purpose and goal
The project developed a demonstrator for IoT security aimed for public environments and applied the solution to one of the user cases from the SOM (Smarta Offentliga Miljöer) project. We used the latest advances and standards in IoT security by demonstrating today´s lab solutions in real environment. We implemented the brand new IETF standard OSCORE (RFC 8613 on Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments) end-to-end from sensors to back-end and on to data users.
Expected effects and result
The benefit of this project was primarily to increase security of Sensatives Yggio and u-blox BLE IoT platforms and the services within the SOM project. Above all, we used the new IoT security standards from IETF where Sweden has been involved and developed. u-blox ambition is to use OSCORE in future IoT modules based on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and / or cellular communication, all with low power. This is an important development step for Sensatives IoT-plattform Yggio, and we will include this solution in other critical use cases and IoT applications.
Planned approach and implementation
The project consisted of four phases: 1) Risk analysis of the existing IoT solutions in one of the user cases in the SOM project. DONE 2) With existing IoT security, improve an existing use case within SOM, monitoring of Critical Infrastructure. DONE - CoAP was implemented but as DTLS gave too big data packets for BLE, we chose to use CoAP and OSCORE directly as it gave smaller data packets. 3) Applied the new IETF OSCORE security standards for IOT. DONE 4) Added the ability to send data from service to sensor to be able control an IoT unit in a secure way. DONE All in all, a very successfull project!