A Security Generic Service Interface of Internet of Things (IoT) Platforms

Abstract: Technological advancements such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are helping to boost the global agricultural sector as it is expected to grow by around seventy percent in the next two decades. There are sensor-based systems in place to keep track of the plants and the surrounding environment. This technology allows farmers to watch and control farm operations from afar, but it has a few limitations. For farmers, these technologies are prohibitively expensive and demand a high level of technological competence. Besides, Climate change has a significant impact on crops because increased temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of disease outbreaks, resulting in crop losses and potentially irreversible plant destruction. Because of recent advancements in IoT and Cloud Computing, new applications built on highly innovative and scalable service platforms are now being developed. The use of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions has enormous promise for improving the quality and safety of agricultural products. Precision farming's telemonitoring system relies heavily on Internet of Things (IoT) platforms; therefore, this article quickly reviews the most common IoT platforms used in precision agriculture, highlighting both their key benefits and drawbacks

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A survey of secure middleware for the Internet of Things

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1241 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul Fremantle ◽

Philip Scott

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Literature Review ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy Threats ◽

Strong Focus ◽

Security Properties ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Structured Literature Review

The rapid growth of small Internet connected devices, known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is creating a new set of challenges to create secure, private infrastructures. This paper reviews the current literature on the challenges and approaches to security and privacy in the Internet of Things, with a strong focus on how these aspects are handled in IoT middleware. We focus on IoT middleware because many systems are built from existing middleware and these inherit the underlying security properties of the middleware framework. The paper is composed of three main sections. Firstly, we propose a matrix of security and privacy threats for IoT. This matrix is used as the basis of a widespread literature review aimed at identifying requirements on IoT platforms and middleware. Secondly, we present a structured literature review of the available middleware and how security is handled in these middleware approaches. We utilise the requirements from the first phase to evaluate. Finally, we draw a set of conclusions and identify further work in this area.

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A survey of secure middleware for the Internet of Things

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1241v2 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Fremantle ◽

Philip Scott

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Literature Review ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

The Internet ◽

Privacy Threats ◽

Strong Focus ◽

Security Properties ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Structured Literature Review

The rapid growth of small Internet connected devices, known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is creating a new set of challenges to create secure, private infrastructures. This paper reviews the current literature on the challenges and approaches to security and privacy in the Internet of Things, with a strong focus on how these aspects are handled in IoT middleware. We focus on IoT middleware because many systems are built from existing middleware and these inherit the underlying security properties of the middleware framework. The paper is composed of three main sections. Firstly, we propose a matrix of security and privacy threats for IoT. This matrix is used as the basis of a widespread literature review aimed at identifying requirements on IoT platforms and middleware. Secondly, we present a structured literature review of the available middleware and how security is handled in these middleware approaches. We utilise the requirements from the first phase to evaluate. Finally, we draw a set of conclusions and identify further work in this area.

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Methodological Approach to Assessing the Economic Efficiency of Digital Projects Applying Internet of Things Platforms

Economic Strategies ◽

10.33917/es-6.180.2021.134-142 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 152 (6) ◽

pp. 134-142

Author(s):

Aleksandr Yu. Mishin ◽

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Economic Efficiency ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Objective Assessment ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Point Of View ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Economic Point ◽

Iot Platforms

One of the key ones and most cost-effective technology from an economic point of view for the real sector is the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which is usually provided in the form of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, still does not have its own framework for assessing its economic efficiency. The author proposes a methodological approach based on a combination of classical methods of investment analysis and an architectural approach. From the information point of view the scientific work is based on cost-effectiveness studies of IoT projects, domestic and foreign scientific publications, IT cases and research on taxonomy of IoT platforms. The proposed approach may serve as the basis both for preparation of financial business cases and for facilitating the development of tools for objective assessment of the project initiatives attractiveness as part of implementation of the state digital development programs in Russia.

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Internet of Things (IoT) Interoperability Success Criteria

International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems ◽

10.4018/ijeis.2021010105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 85-105

Author(s):

Hany Abdelghaffar ◽

Mohamed Abousteit

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Business Value ◽

Digital Service ◽

Iot Platform ◽

Digital Services ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

Technical Factors ◽

The Internet Of Things

To deliver more value to customers, companies are striving to offer more digital services, and the internet of things (IOT) is the main enabler to maximize such value. However, one of the major challenges companies are facing is digital service integration with other providers, where IoT platform is playing important role to achieve such integration opening door for interoperability within actors in the IoT ecosystem. There have been a little research addressing IoT platforms interoperability from business value perspective, considering technical and non-technical factors as selection criteria to adopt such platforms. This paper uses a case study as a method. To validate the suggested interoperability criteria, interviews were conducted for IoT platform providers and two things providers. It was observed that considering technical factors alone when selecting IoT platform make companies oversee the value technology add to their business as IoT platform is not only about technology but also about business model in which this platform will be operating and the company position and role in IoT ecosystem. The paper contributes by providing criteria to achieve interoperability for IoT platform from both technical and business aspects.

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Breaking Vendors and City Locks through a Semantic-enabled Global Interoperable Internet-of-Things System: A Smart Parking Case

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19020229 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 229 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Pablo Sotres ◽

Jorge Lanza ◽

Luis Sánchez ◽

Juan Ramón Santana ◽

Carmen López ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Intelligent Environments ◽

Mobility Service ◽

System A ◽

Smart Parking ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Lock In ◽

The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is unanimously identified as one of the main technology enablers for the development of future intelligent environments. However, the current IoT landscape is suffering from large fragmentation with many platforms and vendors competing with their own solution. This fragmented scenario is now jeopardizing the uptake of the IoT, as investments are not carried out partly because of the fear of being captured in lock-in situations. To overcome these fears, interoperability solutions are being put forward in order to guarantee that the deployed IoT infrastructure, independently of its manufacturer and/or platform, can exchange information, data and knowledge in a meaningful way. This paper presents a Global IoT Services (GIoTS) use case demonstrating how semantic interoperability among five different smart city IoT deployments can be leveraged to develop a smart urban mobility service. The application that has been developed seamlessly consumes data from them for providing parking guidance and mobility suggestions at the five locations (Santander and Barcelona in Spain and Busan, Seoul and Seongnam in South Korea) where the abovementioned IoT deployments are installed. The paper is also presenting the key aspects of the system enabling the interoperability among the three underlying heterogeneous IoT platforms.

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Mastering Interactions with Internet of Things Platforms through the IoTVar Middleware

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2019031078 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 78

Author(s):

Pedro Victor Borges ◽

Chantal Taconet ◽

Sophie Chabridon ◽

Denis Conan ◽

Thais Batista ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Future Internet ◽

Internet Applications ◽

Device Discovery ◽

Geographically Dispersed ◽

Iot Platform ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

Client Side ◽

Application Developers

The rising popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to a plethora of highly heterogeneous, geographically dispersed devices. In recent years, IoT platforms have been used to provide a variety of services to applications such as device discovery, context management, and data analysis. However, the lack of standardization currently means that each IoT platform comes with its own abstractions, APIs, and interactions. As a consequence, programming the interactions between an application and an IoT platform is often time consuming, error prone, and depends on the developers’ level of knowledge about the IoT platform. To address these issues, we propose offering to application developers on the client side the possibility to declare variables that are automatically mapped to sensors and whose values are transparently updated with sensor observations. For this purpose, we introduce IoTVar, a middleware between IoT applications and platforms. In IoTVar, all the necessary interactions with IoT platforms are managed by proxies. This paper presents IoTVar integrated with the FIWARE platform, which is used for developing IoT Future Internet applications. We also report results of some experiments performed to evaluate IoTVar, showing IoTVar reduces the effort required to declare and manage IoT variables and its impact in terms of CPU, memory, and energy.

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Developing Secure IoT Services: A Security-Oriented Review of IoT Platforms

Symmetry ◽

10.3390/sym10120669 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 669 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Daniel Díaz López ◽

María Blanco Uribe ◽

Claudia Santiago Cely ◽

Daniel Tarquino Murgueitio ◽

Edwin Garcia Garcia ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

The Internet ◽

Market Place ◽

Specific Service ◽

Smart Objects ◽

Common Criteria ◽

Iot Platform ◽

Depth Study ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

The Internet Of Things

Undoubtedly, the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has impacted on our every-day life, surrounding us with smart objects. Thus, the potentialities of this new market attracted the industry, so that many enterprises developed their own IoT platforms aiming at helping IoT services’ developers. In the multitude of possible platforms, selecting the most suitable to implement a specific service is not straightforward, especially from a security perspective. This paper analyzes some of the most prominent proposals in the IoT platforms market-place, performing an in-depth security comparison using five common criteria. These criteria are detailed in sub-criteria, so that they can be used as a baseline for the development of a secure IoT service. Leveraging the knowledge gathered from our in-depth study, both researchers and developers may select the IoT platform which best fits their needs. Additionally, an IoT service for monitoring commercial flights is implemented in two previously analyzed IoT platforms, giving an adequate detail level to represent a solid guideline for future IoT developers.

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Internet of Things (IoT) Platform for Multi-Topic Messaging

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13133346 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 3346

Author(s):

Mahmoud Hussein ◽

Ahmed I. Galal ◽

Emad Abd-Elrahman ◽

Mohamed Zorkany

Keyword(s):

Operating System ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

Real Time ◽

Communication Protocol ◽

Real Time Systems ◽

Real Time System ◽

Client Server ◽

Iot Applications ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

Time Systems

IoT-based applications operate in a client–server architecture, which requires a specific communication protocol. This protocol is used to establish the client–server communication model, allowing all clients of the system to perform specific tasks through internet communications. Many data communication protocols for the Internet of Things are used by IoT platforms, including message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT), advanced message queuing protocol (AMQP), MQTT for sensor networks (MQTT-SN), data distribution service (DDS), constrained application protocol (CoAP), and simple object access protocol (SOAP). These protocols only support single-topic messaging. Thus, in this work, an IoT message protocol that supports multi-topic messaging is proposed. This protocol will add a simple “brain” for IoT platforms in order to realize an intelligent IoT architecture. Moreover, it will enhance the traffic throughput by reducing the overheads of messages and the delay of multi-topic messaging. Most current IoT applications depend on real-time systems. Therefore, an RTOS (real-time operating system) as a famous OS (operating system) is used for the embedded systems to provide the constraints of real-time features, as required by these real-time systems. Using RTOS for IoT applications adds important features to the system, including reliability. Many of the undertaken research works into IoT platforms have only focused on specific applications; they did not deal with the real-time constraints under a real-time system umbrella. In this work, the design of the multi-topic IoT protocol and platform is implemented for real-time systems and also for general-purpose applications; this platform depends on the proposed multi-topic communication protocol, which is implemented here to show its functionality and effectiveness over similar protocols.

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Towards the Internet of Agents: An Analysis of the Internet of Things from the Intelligence and Autonomy Perspective

Ingeniería e Investigación ◽

10.15446/ing.investig.v38n1.65638 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 121-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Pablo Antonio Pico Valencia ◽

Juan A. Holgado-Terriza ◽

Deiver Herrera-Sánchez ◽

José Luis Sampietro

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Internet ◽

Iot Applications ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Iot Platforms ◽

Iot Devices ◽

Smart Industry ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

Internet Of Agents

Recently, the scientific community has demonstrated a special interest in the process related to the integration of the agent-oriented technology with Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. Then, it arises a novel approach named Internet of Agents (IoA) as an alternative to add an intelligence and autonomy component for IoT devices and networks. This paper presents an analysis of the main benefits derived from the use of the IoA approach, based on a practical point of view regarding the necessities that humans demand in their daily life and work, which can be solved by IoT networks modeled as IoA infrastructures. It has been presented 24 study cases of the IoA approach at different domains ––smart industry, smart city and smart health wellbeing–– in order to define the scope of these proposals in terms of intelligence and autonomy in contrast to their corresponding generic IoT applications.

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