SOFIE Secure and Open Federation of IoT systems An introduction September 25, 2017 Pekka Nikander, Aalto University
Outline Introduction and goals Core concept Project partners Technical approach Field trials Constrained devices Summary
Introduction and goals EU H2020 IoT-03 R&I project 3 years 2018 2020 Key idea: Secure Open Federation, using DLTs Stated concrete objectives: Define an IoT federation architecture and develop a corresponding framework Deploy and evaluate the federation framework in field trials Evaluate the commercial viability Establish the IoT federation approach as a major enabler
Core concept Federation Openness Application Areas Smart Energy (Electricity & Gas) Grid Inter-ledger transactions Smart Semantics Energy (Electricity interoperability & Gas) Grid Existing IoT Platforms & Autonomous Things Security Data sovereignty Figure 1. SOFIE core concept
Consortium Participant Aalto University Ericsson Rovio Guardtime AUEB Synelixis Optimum Eng Asm Terni Spa Emotion Srl Country Finland Finland Finland Estonia Greece Greece Greece Italy Italy Italy
Technical approach Legacy Hybrid SOFIE Hybrid SOFIE Federation Framework Services/API Services/API Services/API Abstraction Abstraction Abstraction Stored Stored Data Stored Data Data IoT IoT Network IoT Network Network Federation Federation Federation Adapter Adapter Adapter Existing open IoT Platforms (e.g. FIWARE) Semantic Representation Inter-ledger transactions Layer Guardtime KSI... Ethereum Secure Actuation... SOFIE Component Existing DLT Existing IoT Platform Hyper-Ledger Fabric Federation Adapter Existing closed IoT Platforms
SOFIE field trials Mixed reality gaming Energy (2 partly federated trials) Food chain Looking for additional external users / trials
Mixed reality gaming
Energy: Terni
Energy: Estonia
Food chain SOFIE Community based Marketplace Application Supermarket IoT Platform Optimum Aberon IoT Platform Synelixis SynField IoT Platform Trucks IoT Sensors Supermarket Storage & Distribution Centre Synelixis SynField multi-hop network of in-field nodes
Constrained devices Legacy Hybrid SOFIE Hybrid Currently not considering constrained devices directly You may want to convince us otherwise Services/API Services/API Services/API Abstraction Abstraction Abstraction Stored Stored Data Stored Data Data IoT IoT Network IoT Network Network Federation Federation Federation Adapter Adapter Adapter Existing open IoT Platforms (e.g. FIWARE) SOFIE Federation Framework Semantic Representation Inter-ledger transactions Layer Guardtime KSI... Ethereum Secure Actuation... SOFIE Component Existing DLT Existing IoT Platform Hyper-Ledger Fabric Federation Adapter Existing closed IoT Platforms Perhaps an "open" federation adapter could address that? Anyone volunteers to write such an adapter?
Reflection Not rocket science Mostly novel integrating of existing components Security and privacy may be challenging Especially end-to-end data security Apparently lots of conflicting needs Need community help to get the details right
Summary H2020 IoT-03 R&I, 2018 2020, 4.5 M, 10 partners Secure Open Federation of IoT platforms with DLTs Trial areas: Gaming, Energy, Food chain We are looking for Community feedback (e.g. to our white paper) New external trials / users (from mid 2018)