ABSTRACT
The Internet of the Future will be an essential part of the knowledge society and will provide new information-based business. The usage of the Internet of Things for large-scale, partially mission-critical systems creates the need to address trust and security functions adequately.
The vision of SMARTIE 1 (Secure and sMArter ciTIEs data management) is to create a distributed framework for IoT based applications sharing large volumes of heterogeneous information. This framework is envisioned to enable end-to-end security and trust in information delivery for decision-making purposes following data owner’s privacy requirements. New challenges identified for privacy, trust and reliability are:
Providing trust and quality-of-information in shared information models to enable re-use across many applications.
Providing secure exchange of data between IoT devices and consumers of their information.
Providing protection mechanisms for vulnerable devices.
226SMARTIE will address these challenges within the context of Smart Cities. In this chapter we will present the SMARTIE focus on the security, trust and privacy of the Internet-of-Things infrastructure and the generated data. The dissemination of collected data and use of information must be protected to prevent harm to the control and management of the smart city infrastructure and to the citizen. Privacy-protection and access control to the data is necessary to convince data owners to share information in order to allow better services in the city. SMARTIE envisions a data-centric paradigm, which will offer highly scalable and secure information for smart city applications. The heart of this paradigm will be the “information management and services” plane as a unifying umbrella, which will operate above heterogeneous network devices and data sources and will provide advanced secure information services enabling powerful higher-layer applications.