Secure and Modular Internet-of-Things (SMIT)

Funded by Boeing
Partners:	–
Duration:	2016

Security and privacy protections are needed to increase the confidence on the wide deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Resource constrained IoT devices has limited computational power and battery lifetime. Such devices are desired to use affordable security solutions to guarantee data security as well as providing a long service period. In 2015, there are more than 4.9 billion connected IoT devices worldwide and the number is expected to reach more than 20.8 billion by 2020. However, ubiquitous deployment of IoT applications bring their own vulnerabilities. Unless security, privacy and trust features are built in during the design, deployment and operational phases, these systems can readily be compromised, making the IoT an easy target for attackers.

Secure and Modular Internet of Things (SMIT) is to build a platform which offers secure and lightweight communication between resource constrained devices in low power networks (6LoWPAN). The project aims to setup a modular IoT system which is able to launch standard IoT security solutions and customized solutions for engineering and research work. For example, our proposed lightweight mutual authentication protocol (CLAP) can be deployed in the SMIT platform to test its security and efficiency.

SMIT minimizes the effort of people to operate the system or run an experiment. It provides command line based interface to configure system environment. Moreover, the system can automatically analyse experiment data and generate a report to show important results like network latency. These features aim to reduce the repetitive  work of different IoT application development.