Descrizione del progetto
Comporre il puzzle dell’Internet delle cose
C’è una crescente necessità di standardizzazione e interoperabilità tra le piattaforme, i dispositivi e i sistemi dell’Internet delle cose (IoT, Internet of Things). L’attuale frammentazione è visibile nelle numerose tecnologie, protocolli e standard di comunicazione brevettati. È una situazione che ostacola il potenziale dell’IoT, limitandone la scalabilità, l’efficienza e l’innovazione. In questo contesto, il progetto SOFIE, finanziato dall’UE, proporrà una soluzione innovativa. Creando un’architettura IoT federata sicura e aperta, il progetto sfrutta la tecnologia del registro distribuito per consentire una scalabilità illimitata, contratti intelligenti e soluzioni decentralizzate. Qualsiasi piattaforma IoT può aderire senza problemi alla federazione, mantenendo i dati all’interno delle rispettive piattaforme. SOFIE si baserà sugli standard aperti esistenti e creerà un quadro federato IoT che favorisca piattaforme aziendali sicure e decentralizzate.
Obiettivo
SOFIE addresses the challenges of the call by creating a secure and open IoT federation architecture and framework. We use Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), including blockchains and inter-ledger technologies, to enable actuation, auditability, smart contracts and management of identities and encryption keys, and to enable totally decentralised solutions with virtually unlimited scalability.
We address the fragmentation of IoT through federation rather than integration. Virtually any IoT platform can join the federation by creating, relatively simply, an adapter. Data remains in the respective IoT platforms and is usable by all the applications within the limits set by the applicable security and privacy policies.
We exercise security and privacy by design. We provide end-to-end security, key management, authorisation, accountability, and auditability, utilising DLTs where applicable. The user shall retain control over their data also after the data have been stored in the Cloud or Fog in an EU GDPR (or other regulations) compliant manner.
We base our work on existing open standards, interfaces and components, such as FIWARE, W3C Web of Things (WoT), and oneM2M. We will select existing components, develop new ones, and collect them — together with documentation, instructions and examples — into an IoT federation framework for creating administratively decentralised, open, and secure IoT business platforms from existing IoT platforms.
We will demonstrate the practicality of our approach by using it in three pilots in three different sectors: food chain, gaming, and energy market. Three business platforms will be realised for the pilots. The results of the pilots will be evaluated against the key performance indicators.
We actively participate in standardisation and disseminate our results through scientific journals, conferences, and workshops, but also the Web, social media and developer communities. We also aim to make at least two of the pilots sustainable.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
02150 Espoo
Finlandia