In today s world, security is a very important issue. People should always keep their belongings safe. To increase security, this research work proposes a IoT-based smart lockers with sensors and access keys with security, verification, and user-friendly tools. This model alerts the user when someone else tries to access their locker and quickly sends an alarm to the authorized user, and provides the option to either grant or reject access to the valid user. In this paper, smart locker is kept registered early to use a locker in the bank, office, home, etc. to ensure safety. The user demands to send an unlock direction with the help of microcontroller NUDE MCU ESP8266 and after accepting the command from the cloud (BLYNK APP), only the user can unlock the closet and access the valuables. This study has also introduced the encroachment detection in lockers with sensors and finally installed smart lockers with fire alarms for security and reliability.
Authored by Bhawna Khokher, Mamta Savadatti, Anish Kumar, T.V. Nikhil, Pranav Raj, Aditya Thakre
Advances in sensor and communication technologies have transformed traditional homes into smart homes, equipped with sensors and actuators for various functionalities like smart lighting, temperature control, irrigation, solar monitoring, entertainment, and security. This transition is powered by the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, enabling smart home hubs to integrate and control devices with different communication protocols. However, this shift has also introduced new security and privacy issues in the Smart Home IoT (SH-IoT) environment. To address these challenges, new communication protocols with cryptographic features have been developed, and a unified standard called Matter has been created to promote interoperability among different device manufacturers. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of recent trends and advances in the smart home IoT landscape, focusing on communication protocols, their security issues and protection features against vulnerabilities in the SH-IoT environment.
Authored by Ismael Holguin, Sai Errapotu
With the advancement in Internet of things smart homes are rapidly developing. Smart home is the major key component of Internet of thing. With the help of IOT technology we can stay connected to our home appliance. Internet of Things is the Associations of inserted advancements that. Contained physical protests and is utilized to convey and keenness or collaborate with the internal states or the outer surroundings. Rather than individuals to individuals’ correspondence, IoT accentuation on machine-to-machine correspondence. Smart home connects the physical components of our home with the help of software and sensors so that we can access them via internet from one place. Building home automation includes computerizing a home, likewise, mentioned to as a sensible home or smart home. Domestic machines are an urgent part of the Web of Things whenever they are associated with the web. Controlled devices are commonly connected to a focal center or entryway through a domestic automation framework. A smartphone application, tablet PC, personal computer, wall-mounted terminals, or even a web interface that can be gotten to from off-website over the Web are completely utilized by the program to work the framework. Since all the devices are interconnected and interlinked to one an-another they are lot of chances for security breach and data theft. If the security layer is easily breakable any third-party attacker can easily theft the private data of the user. Which leads us to pay more attention to protecting and securing private data. With the day-to-day development of Smart Home, the safety also got to be developed and updated day to day the safety challenges of the IoT for a wise home scenario are encountered, and a comprehensive IoT security management for smart homes has been proposed. This paper acquaints the status of IoT development, and furthermore contains security issues challenges. Finally, this paper surveys the Gamble factor, security issues and challenges in every point of view
Authored by S.R Anupriya, Muthumanikandan V
In the last decade the rapid development of the communications and IoT systems have risen many challenges regarding the security of the devices that are handled wirelessly. Therefore, in this paper, we intend to test the possibility of spoofing the parameters for connection of the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, to make several recommendations for increasing the security of the usage of those devices and to propose basic counter measurements regarding the possibility of hacking them.
Authored by Cristian Capotă, Mădălin Popescu, Simona Halunga, Octavian Fratu
Multiple smart operations, similar as smart technologies in homes, smart metropolises, smart husbandry, and smart health and fitness centres, use a new technology known as the Internet of effects. They correspond of an multifariousness of multiple networked bias that link to multiple detectors and the internet. Among the layers that comprise an IoT armature are the perception subcaste, network subcaste, and operation subcaste. Due to their wide use, these smart biases have fairly minimum protection and are vulnerable to attacks. Comprehensive explanations of operation subcaste security issues and protocols, similar as Advance Message Queuing Protocol(AMQP) in application layer protocol, Constrained operation protocol(CoAP), and REST(Emblematic State Transport).
Authored by K Parvathy, B Nataraj
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects the physical world to the digital world, and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a significant role. There are billions of IoT products in the market. We found that security was not the primary focus of software developers. The first step of designing a secure product is to analyze and note down the security requirements. This research paper proposes a modified approach, incorporating elements from the SREP (Software Requirements Engineering Process) and SQUARE (Security Quality Requirement Engineering), to define security requirements for IoT products. The revised process is applied to determine the security requirements of a Smart Lock system that utilizes the publish/subscribe protocol MQTT-SN (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks) communication protocol architecture.
Authored by Hemant Gupta, Amiya Nayak
This paper focuses on the adoption of biometric and RFID security gadgets as innovative solutions for enhancing door lock systems. The traditional reliance on physical keys has proven vulnerable to security breaches, prompting the need for more robust measures. Biometric features such as Fingerprint, Voice and Bluetooth offer unparalleled security by leveraging unique biological characteristics for authentication. Additionally, integrating RFID technology enables convenient access control through assigned cards or tags, eliminating the need for physical keys or complex passwords. The combination of these cutting-edge solutions establishes a comprehensive security infrastructure, significantly reducing risks associated with conventional lock systems. This research highlights the benefits and applications of these technologies in various settings, emphasizing their role in creating a safer environment for individuals and organizations.
Authored by Sherly Alphonse, Chitranshu Gupta, Mohammad Warsi, Karmokar Shantu, Aryaman Tamotia
The Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by a myriad of communication protocols that enable seamless connectivity among devices. However, the open nature of the internet exposes these communication protocols to various flaws and vulnerabilities, resulting in the necessity for rigorous security verification. In response to this imperative, the literature abounds with research efforts aimed at assessing the security properties of IoT communication protocols using diverse techniques. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of these research endeavors, with a specific focus on the utilization of Formal Methods to verify the security of common communication protocols employed in the IoT.
Authored by Imane Bouziane, Houda Belmokadem, Mohamed Moussaoui
Today the motorcycle theft cases in Indonesia are in a very high rate and it has been continuing to increase in every year. For this, there is a need for a security system for motorcycle to minimize the risk of motorcycle theft. This study aims to design and create an Internet of Things (IoT)-based security system for the motorcycle that can be controlled through smartphone purposely to reduce the rate of motorcycle thefts. The system was created using Arduino microcontroller. From the results of the implementation, it produced a device that has a number of features including turning on, turning off, and motorcycle starter using application. Another one is the function of tracking to trace the position of the motorcycle. The third feature is to turn off the function of motorcycle socket and the fourth feature is to control the switch engine of motorcycle. The results of the testing in the parameters of maximum distance of Bluetooth connection, delay proses, test of GPS connectivity and test of voice command, showed that it could create a system that can be used well as an anti-theft device for motorcycle.
Authored by Adika Saputra, Vera Suryani, Andrian Rakhmatsyah
There will be a billion smart devices with processing, sensing, and actuation capabilities that can be connected to the Internet under the IoT paradigm. The level of convenience, effectiveness, and automation for consumers is expected to rise owing to promising IoT applications. Privacy is a significant concern in IoT systems, and it is essential to provide users with full awareness and control over the data collected by these systems. The use of privacy-enhancing technologies can help to minimise the risks associated with data collection and processing and ensure that user privacy is protected. Lack of standards for devices with limited resources and heterogeneous technologies intensifies the security issue. There are various emerging and existing technologies that can help to address the security risks in the IoT sector and achieve a high degree of trust in IoT applications. By implementing these technologies and countermeasures, it is possible to improve the security and reliability of IoT systems, ensuring that they can be used safely and effectively in a wide range of applications. This article s intent is to provide a comprehensive investigation of the threats and risks in the IoT industry and to examine some potential countermeasures.
Authored by Jaspreet Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Shradha Negi
Blockchain, as an emerging distributed database, effectively addresses the issue of centralized storage in IoT data, where storage capacity cannot match the explosive growth in devices and data scale, as well as the contradictions arising from centralized data management concerning data privacy and security concerns. To alleviate the problem of excessive pressure on single-point storage and ensure data security, a blockchain data storage method based on erasure codes is proposed. This method involves constructing mathematical functions that describe the data to split the original block data into multiple fragments and add redundant slices. These fragments are then encoded and stored in different locations using a circular hash space with the addition of virtual nodes to ensure load balancing among nodes and reduce situations where a single node stores too many encoded data blocks, effectively enhancing the storage space utilization efficiency of the distributed storage database. The blockchain storage method stores encoded data digest information such as storage location, creation time, and hashes, allowing for the tracing of the origin of encoded data blocks. In case of accidental loss or malicious tampering, this enables effective recovery and ensures the integrity and availability of data in the network. Experimental results indicate that compared to traditional blockchain approaches, this method effectively reduces the storage pressure on nodes and exhibits a certain degree of disaster recovery capability.
Authored by Fanyao Meng, Jin Li, Jiaqi Gao, Junjie Liu, Junpeng Ru, Yueming Lu
An IC used in a safety-critical application such as automotive often requires a long lifetime of more than 10 years. Previously, stress test has been used as a means to establish the accelerated aging model for an IC product under a harsh operating condition. Then, the accelerated aging model is time-stretched to predict an IC’s normal lifetime. However, such a long-stretching prediction may not be very trustworthy. In this work, we present a more refined method to provide higher credibility in the IC lifetime prediction. We streamline in this paper a progressive lifetime prediction method with two phases – the training phase and the inference phase. During the training phase, we collect the aging histories of some training devices under various stress levels. During the inference phase, the extrapolation is performed on the “stressed lifetime” versus the “stress level” space and thereby leading to a more trustworthy prediction of the lifetime.
Authored by Chen-Lin Tsai, Shi-Yu Huang
Physical fitness is the prime priority of people these days as everyone wants to see himself as healthy. There are numbers of wearable devices available that help human to monitor their vital body signs through which one can get an average idea of their health. Advancements in the efficiency of healthcare systems have fueled the research and development of high-performance wearable devices. There is significant potential for portable healthcare systems to lower healthcare costs and provide continuous health monitoring of critical patients from remote locations. The most pressing need in this field is developing a safe, effective, and trustworthy medical device that can be used to reliably monitor vital signs from various human organs or the environment within or outside the body through flexible sensors. Still, the patient should be able to go about their normal day while sporting a wearable or implanted medical device. This article highlights the current scenario of wearable devices and sensors for healthcare applications. Specifically, it focuses on some widely used commercially available wearable devices for continuously gauging patient’s vital parameters and discusses the major factors influencing the surge in the demand for medical devices. Furthermore, this paper addresses the challenges and countermeasures of wearable devices in smart healthcare technology.
Authored by Kavery Verma, Preity Preity, Rakesh Ranjan
A fingerprint architecture based on a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) for the use as a hardware security component is presented. The MEMS serves as a physically unclonable function (PUF) and is used for fingerprint ID generation, derived from the MEMS-specific parameters. The fingerprint is intended to allow the unique identifiability of electronic components and thus to ensure protection against unauthorized replacement or manipulation. The MEMS chip consists of 16 individual varactors with continuously adjustable capacitance values that are used for bit derivation (“analog” PUF). The focus is on the design-related forcing of random technological spread to provide a wide range of different parameters per chip or wafer to achieve a maximum key length. Key generation and verification is carried out via fingerprint electronics connected to the MEMS, which is realized by an FPGA.
Authored by Katja Meinel, Christian Schott, Franziska Mayer, Dhruv Gupta, Sebastian Mittag, Susann Hahn, Sebastian Weidlich, Daniel Bülz, Roman Forke, Karla Hiller, Ulrich Heinkel, Harald Kuhn
In the realm of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the trust management system (TMS) has been enhanced through the utilisation of diverse machine learning (ML) classifiers in recent times. The efficacy of training machine learning classifiers with pre-existing datasets for establishing trustworthiness in IoT devices is constrained by the inadequacy of selecting suitable features. The current study employes a subset of the UNSW-NB15 dataset to compute additional features such as throughput, goodput, packet loss. These features may be combined with the best discriminatory features to distinguish between trustworthy and non-trustworthy IoT networks. In addition, the transformed dataset undergoes filter-based and wrapper-based feature selection methods to mitigate the presence of irrelevant and redundant features. The evaluation of classifiers is performed utilising diverse metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, true positive rate (TPR), and false positive rate (FPR). The performance assessment is conducted both with and without the application of feature selection methodologies. Ultimately, a comparative analysis of the machine learning models is performed, and the findings of the analysis demonstrate that our model s efficacy surpasses that of the approaches utilised in the existing literature.
Authored by Muhammad Aaqib, Aftab Ali, Liming Chen, Omar Nibouche
Memristive crossbar-based architecture provides an energy-efficient platform to accelerate neural networks (NNs) thanks to its Processing-in-Memory (PIM) nature. However, the device-to-device variation (DDV), which is typically modeled as Lognormal distribution, deviates the programmed weights from their target values, resulting in significant performance degradation. This paper proposes a new Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) approach to enhance the robustness of weights against DDV. Instead of using the widely-used Gaussian variational posterior in conventional BNNs, our approach adopts a DDV-specific variational posterior distribution, i.e., Lognormal distribution. Accordingly, in the new BNN approach, the prior distribution is modified to keep consistent with the posterior distribution to avoid expensive Monte Carlo simulations. Furthermore, the mean of the prior distribution is dynamically adjusted in accordance with the mean of the Lognormal variational posterior distribution for better convergence and accuracy. Compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, experimental results show that the proposed new BNN approach can significantly boost the inference accuracy with the consideration of DDV on several well-known datasets and modern NN architectures. For example, the inference accuracy can be improved from 18\% to 74\% in the scenario of ResNet-18 on CIFAR-10 even under large variations.
Authored by Yang Xiao, Qi Xu, Bo Yuan
In the landscape of modern computing, fog computing has emerged as a service provisioning mechanism that addresses the dual demands of low latency and service localisation. Fog architecture consists of a network of interconnected nodes that work collectively to execute tasks and process data in a localised area, thereby reducing the delay induced from communication with the cloud. However, a key issue associated with fog service provisioning models is its limited localised processing capability and storage relative to the cloud, thereby presenting inherent issues on its scalability. In this paper, we propose volunteer computing coupled with optimisation methods to address the issue of localised fog scalability. The use of optimisation methods ensures the optimal use of fog infrastructure. To scale the fog network as per the requirements, we leverage the notion of volunteer computing. We propose an intelligent approach for node selection in a trustworthy fog environment to satisfy the performance and bandwidth requirements of the fog network. The problem is formulated as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem where nodes are evaluated and ranked based on several factors, including service level agreement (SLA) parameters and reputation value.
Authored by Asma Alkhalaf, Farookh Hussain
IoT scenarios face cybersecurity concerns due to unauthorized devices that can impersonate legitimate ones by using identical software and hardware configurations. This can lead to sensitive information leaks, data poisoning, or privilege escalation. Behavioral fingerprinting and ML/DL techniques have been used in the literature to identify devices based on performance differences caused by manufacturing imperfections. In addition, using Federated Learning to maintain data privacy is also a challenge for IoT scenarios. Federated Learning allows multiple devices to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their data, but it requires addressing issues such as communication latency, heterogeneity of devices, and data security concerns. In this sense, Trustworthy Federated Learning has emerged as a potential solution, which combines privacy-preserving techniques and metrics to ensure data privacy, model integrity, and secure communication between devices. Therefore, this work proposes a trustworthy federated learning framework for individual device identification. It first analyzes the existing metrics for trustworthiness evaluation in FL and organizes them into six pillars (privacy, robustness, fairness, explainability, accountability, and federation) for computing the trustworthiness of FL models. The framework presents a modular setup where one component is in charge of the federated model generation and another one is in charge of trustworthiness evaluation. The framework is validated in a real scenario composed of 45 identical Raspberry Pi devices whose hardware components are monitored to generate individual behavior fingerprints. The solution achieves a 0.9724 average F1-Score in the identification on a centralized setup, while the average F1-Score in the federated setup is 0.8320. Besides, a 0.6 final trustworthiness score is achieved by the model on state-of-the-art metrics, indicating that further privacy and robustness techniques are required to improve this score.
Authored by Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Celdrán, Gérôme Bovet, Gregorio Pérez, Burkhard Stiller
The digitalization and smartization of modern digital systems include the implementation and integration of emerging innovative technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence. By incorporating new technologies, the surface attack of the system also expands, and specialized cybersecurity mechanisms and tools are required to counter the potential new threats. This paper introduces a holistic security risk assessment methodology that aims to assist Artificial Intelligence system stakeholders guarantee the correct design and implementation of technical robustness in Artificial Intelligence systems. The methodology is designed to facilitate the automation of the security risk assessment of Artificial Intelligence components together with the rest of the system components. Supporting the methodology, the solution to the automation of Artificial Intelligence risk assessment is also proposed. Both the methodology and the tool will be validated when assessing and treating risks on Artificial Intelligence-based cybersecurity solutions integrated in modern digital industrial systems that leverage emerging technologies such as cloud continuum including Software-defined networking (SDN).
Authored by Eider Iturbe, Erkuden Rios, Nerea Toledo
Device recognition is the primary step toward a secure IoT system. However, the existing equipment recognition technology often faces the problems of unobvious data characteristics and insufficient training samples, resulting in low recognition rate. To address this problem, a convolutional neural network-based IoT device recognition method is proposed. We first extract the background icons of various IoT devices through the Internet, and then use the ResNet50 neural network to extract icon feature vectors to build an IoT icon library, and realize accurate identification of device types through image retrieval. The experimental results show that the accuracy rate of sampling retrieval in the icon library can reach 98.5\%, and the recognition accuracy rate outside the library can reach 83.3\%, which can effectively identify the type of IoT devices.
Authored by Minghao Lu, Linghui Li, Yali Gao, Xiaoyong Li
Recommender systems (RS) are an efficient tool to reduce information overload when one has an overwhelming choice of resources. Embedding context-awareness into RS is found to increase accuracy and user satisfaction by allowing systems to consider users current situation (context). Context-aware recommender system (CARS) has applications in various areas, including education, where it can help learners by suggesting learning resources, peers to collaborate with, and more. When CARS is used in a learning context, it adds to the issue of lack of trust in the information, source, and intention as one builds knowledge through it. Further, embedding context-awareness adds to the trust issue due to the additional layer of automated context detection and context interpretation without users involvement. I investigate how to build trust in CARS in an educational setting. My investigation will be threefold (a) Understanding users perceptions of CARS; (b) Investigating design interventions to build trust in CARS; (c) Designing and evaluating a multidimensional approach to build trust in CARS.
Authored by Neha Rani
Connected, Cooperative, and Autonomous Mobility (CCAM) will take intelligent transportation to a new level of complexity. CCAM systems can be thought of as complex Systems-of-Systems (SoSs). They pose new challenges to security as consequences of vulnerabilities or attacks become much harder to assess. In this paper, we propose the use of a specific type of a trust model, called subjective trust network, to model and assess trustworthiness of data and nodes in an automotive SoS. Given the complexity of the topic, we illustrate the application of subjective trust networks on a specific example, namely Cooperative Intersection Management (CIM). To this end, we introduce the CIM use-case and show how it can be modelled as a subjective trust network. We then analyze how such trust models can be useful both for design time and run-time analysis, and how they would allow us a more precise quantitative assessment of trust in automotive SoSs. Finally, we also discuss the open research problems and practical challenges that need to be addressed before such trust models can be applied in practice.
Authored by Frank Kargl, Nataša Trkulja, Artur Hermann, Florian Sommer, Anderson de Lucena, Alexander Kiening, Sergej Japs
As industrial networks continue to expand and connect more devices and users, they face growing security challenges such as unauthorized access and data breaches. This paper delves into the crucial role of security and trust in industrial networks and how trust management systems (TMS) can mitigate malicious access to these networks.The TMS presented in this paper leverages distributed ledger technology (blockchain) to evaluate the trustworthiness of blockchain nodes, including devices and users, and make access decisions accordingly. While this approach is applicable to blockchain, it can also be extended to other areas. This approach can help prevent malicious actors from penetrating industrial networks and causing harm. The paper also presents the results of a simulation to demonstrate the behavior of the TMS and provide insights into its effectiveness.
Authored by Fatemeh Stodt, Christoph Reich, Axel Sikora, Dominik Welte
The principles of social networking and the Internet of Things were combined to create the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm. Therefore, this paradigm cannot become widely adopted to the point where it becomes a well-established technology without a security mechanism to assure reliable interactions between SIoT nodes. A Trust Management (TM) model becomes a major challenge in SIoT systems to create a trust score for the network nodes ranking. Regarding the defined TM models methodology, this score will persist for the subsequent transaction and will only be changed after some time has passed or after another transaction. However, a trust evaluation methodology must be able to consider the different constraints of the SIoT environments (dynamism and scalability) when building trust scores. Based on both event-driven and time-driven methods for trust update solutions, this model can identify which damaging nodes should be eliminated based on their changing problematic behaviors over time. The effectiveness of our proposed model has been validated by a number of simulation-based experiments that were conducted on various scenarios.
Authored by Rim Magdich, Hanen Jemal, Mounir Ben Ayed
The prediction of human trust in machines within decision-aid systems is crucial for improving system performance. However, previous studies have only measured machine performance based on its decision history, failing to account for the machine’s current decision state. This delay in evaluating machine performance can result in biased trust predictions, making it challenging to enhance the overall performance of the human-machine system. To address this issue, this paper proposes incorporating machine estimated performance scores into a human-machine trust prediction model to improve trust prediction accuracy and system performance. We also provide an explanation for how this model can enhance system performance.To estimate the accuracy of the machine’s current decision, we employ the KNN(K-Nearest Neighbors) method and obtain a corresponding performance score. Next, we report the estimated score to humans through the human-machine interaction interface and obtain human trust via trust self-reporting. Finally, we fit the trust prediction model parameters using data and evaluate the model’s efficacy through simulation on a public dataset. Our ablation experiments show that the model reduces trust prediction bias by 3.6\% and significantly enhances the overall accuracy of human-machine decision-making.
Authored by Shaojun Chen, Yun-Bo Zhao, Yang Wang, Junsen Lu