scholarly journals From design to prototyping in the Internet of Things: A domotics case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Sabrina Sicari ◽  
Alessandra Rizzardi ◽  
Alberto Coen-Porisini

Nowadays, the capability of rapidly designing and prototyping, simple, yet real domotics systems (e.g., smart homes and smart buildings applications) is even more compelling, due to the availability and increasing spread of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Home automation services enable the remote monitoring of indoor environments and facilities. The main advantages include saving energy consumption and improving the overall management (and users' experience) in certain application domains. The pervasive adoption and diffusion of such remote monitoring solutions is hampered by the timing required for design, prototyping and further developing applications and underlying architecture, which must be often customized on the basis of specific domains' needs and involved entities. To cope with this issue, the paper proposes the analysis and prototyping of a domotics case study, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of proper IoT?related tools in speeding up the testing phase.

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Giaretta ◽  
Nicola Dragoni ◽  
Fabio Massacci

Cybersecurity is one of the biggest challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, as well as one of its most embarrassing failures. As a matter of fact, nowadays IoT devices still exhibit various shortcomings. For example, they lack secure default configurations and sufficient security configurability. They also lack rich behavioural descriptions, failing to list provided and required services. To answer this problem, we envision a future where IoT devices carry behavioural contracts and Fog nodes store network policies. One requirement is that contract consistency must be easy to prove. Moreover, contracts must be easy to verify against network policies. In this paper, we propose to combine the security-by-contract (S × C) paradigm with Fog computing to secure IoT devices. Following our previous work, first we formally define the pillars of our proposal. Then, by means of a running case study, we show that we can model communication flows and prevent information leaks. Last, we show that our contribution enables a holistic approach to IoT security, and that it can also prevent unexpected chains of events.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Kumar Prasad ◽  
Madhuri D Bhavsar ◽  
Sudeep Tanwar

The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has augmented the necessity for Cloud, edge and fog platforms. The chief benefit of cloud-based schemes is they allow data to be collected from numerous services and sites, which is reachable from any place of the world. The organizations will be benefited by merging the cloud platform with the on-site fog networks and edge devices and as result, this will increase the utilization of the IoT devices and end users too. The network traffic will reduce as data will be distributed and this will also improve the operational efficiency. The impact of monitoring in edge and fog computing can play an important role to efficiently utilize the resources available at these layers. This paper discusses various techniques involved for monitoring for edge and fog computing and its advantages. The paper ends with a case study to demonstarte the need of monitoring in fog and edge in the healthcare system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feroz Khan A.B ◽  
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Anandharaj G ◽  

The smart devices connected on the internet turn to be the internet of things, which connect other objects or devices through unique identifiers with the capability of transferring and receiving the information over the internet. There are numerous applications in different areas such as healthcare, home automation, transportation, military, agriculture, and still so many sectors that incorporate cutting-edge technologies of communication, networking, cloud computing, sensing, and actuation. With this huge increase in the number of connected devices, a strong security mechanism is required to protect the IoT devices. Hence, it is required to focus on the challenges and issues of IoT enabled applications to safeguard the entire network from the outside invasion. This paper discusses some of the challenges in building IoT applications, a detailed study of the existing security protocols, and its issues, and the potential of the IoT.


Computer ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip A. Laplante ◽  
Jeffrey Voas ◽  
Nancy Laplante

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Tranter

Security is always at the forefront of developing technologies. One can seldom go a week without hearing of a new data breach or hacking attempt from various groups around the world, often taking advantage of a simple flaw in a system’s architecture. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these developing technologies which may be at risk of such attacks. IoT devices are becoming more and more prevalent in everyday life. From keeping track of an individual’s health, to suggesting meals from items available in an individual’s fridge, these technologies are taking a much larger role in the personal lives of their users. With this in mind, how is security being considered in the development of these technologies? Are these devices that monitor individual’s personal lives just additional vectors for potential data theft? Throughout this survey, various approaches to the development of security systems concerning IoT devices in the home will be discussed, compared, and contrasted in the hope of providing an ideal solution to the problems this technology may produce.


Author(s):  
Clinton Fernandes ◽  
Vijay Sivaraman

This article examines the implications of selected aspects of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015, which was passed by the Australian Parliament in March 2015. It shows how the new law has strengthened protections for privacy. However, focusing on the investigatory implications, it shows how the law provides a tactical advantage to investigators who pursue whistleblowers and investigative journalists. The article exposes an apparent discrepancy in the way ‘journalist’ is defined across different pieces of legislation. It argues that although legislators’ interest has been overwhelmingly focused on communications data, the explosion of data generated by the so-called Internet-of-Things (IoT) is as important or more. It shows how the sensors in selected IoT devices lead to a loss of user control and will enable non-stop, involuntary and ubiquitous monitoring of individuals. It suggests that the law will need to be amended further once legislators and investigators’ knowledge of the potential of IoT increases. 


Author(s):  
Tanweer Alam

In next-generation computing, the role of cloud, internet and smart devices will be capacious. Nowadays we all are familiar with the word smart. This word is used a number of times in our daily life. The Internet of Things (IoT) will produce remarkable different kinds of information from different resources. It can store big data in the cloud. The fog computing acts as an interface between cloud and IoT. The extension of fog in this framework works on physical things under IoT. The IoT devices are called fog nodes, they can have accessed anywhere within the range of the network. The blockchain is a novel approach to record the transactions in a sequence securely. Developing a new blockchains based middleware framework in the architecture of the Internet of Things is one of the critical issues of wireless networking where resolving such an issue would result in constant growth in the use and popularity of IoT. The proposed research creates a framework for providing the middleware framework in the internet of smart devices network for the internet of things using blockchains technology. Our main contribution links a new study that integrates blockchains to the Internet of things and provides communication security to the internet of smart devices.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Tranter

Security is always at the forefront of developing technologies. One can seldom go a week without hearing of a new data breach or hacking attempt from various groups around the world, often taking advantage of a simple flaw in a system’s architecture. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these developing technologies which may be at risk of such attacks. IoT devices are becoming more and more prevalent in everyday life. From keeping track of an individual’s health, to suggesting meals from items available in an individual’s fridge, these technologies are taking a much larger role in the personal lives of their users. With this in mind, how is security being considered in the development of these technologies? Are these devices that monitor individual’s personal lives just additional vectors for potential data theft? Throughout this survey, various approaches to the development of security systems concerning IoT devices in the home will be discussed, compared, and contrasted in the hope of providing an ideal solution to the problems this technology may produce.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1275-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopika Premsankar ◽  
Mario Di Francesco ◽  
Tarik Taleb

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