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SOFIE Secure and Open Federation of IoT systems An overview December 4, 2017 Pekka Nikander, Aalto University

Outline • Introduction and goals • Core concept • Project partners • Technical approach • Field trials • 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 Energy (Electricity & Gas) Grid Semantics interoperability Existing IoT Platforms & Autonomous “Things” Data sovereignty Security Figure 1. SOFIE core concept consortium’s technological excellence, existing prototype platforms (s See e.g. the “Overton report”: David Overton, Next Generation Internet Initiative – – – – –

Consortium Participant Country Aalto University Finland Ericsson Finland Rovio Finland Guardtime Estonia AUEB Greece Synelixis Greece Optimum Greece Eng Italy Asm Terni Spa Italy Emotion Srl Italy

● ● ● Technical approach SOFIE Hybrid Legacy Hybrid IoT Application IoT Application IoT Application IoT Application SOFIE Federation Framework Secure Semantic . . . Actuation Representation Services/API Federation Services/API Federation Services/API Federation Federation Adapter Inter-ledger transactions Layer Adapter Abstraction Adapter Abstraction Adapter Abstraction Stored Data Stored Data Stored Data Guardtime Hyper-Ledger IoT Network IoT Network Ethereum . . . IoT Network KSI Fabric Existing “open” IoT Platforms (e.g. FIWARE) Existing “closed” IoT Platforms SOFIE Component Existing DLT Existing IoT Platform � Describe the data (“things”) in the existing IoT pl handling of “thing events” needs to be considered. � decentralised blockchains and ledgers whose governance is also decentralised or “equilateralized” (see Section – – –

SOFIE field trials • Mixed reality gaming • Energy (2 partly federated trials) • Food chain • Looking for additional external users / trials

● ● Mixed reality gaming ● ● infrastructure as part of the university’s digitalization agenda, and it will also host one of the world’s first 5G test – � � – – –

Energy: Terni Figure 6. Overview of the energy pilot The Terni pilot will be extended/interoperated with Guardtime’s laboratory and interoperability pilot. Though the – – –

Elering (Estonia’s major utility, commercial partner of Guardtime). Energy: Estonia ● ● ● ● customer’s point of view, provides the ability to – – –

Food chain SOFIE Community based Marketplace Application Synelixis SynField Optimum Aberon Supermarket IoT IoT Platform Platform IoT Platform Trucks IoT Sensors Synelixis’ SynField Supermarket Storage & Distribution multi-hop network of in-field nodes Centre and the air in the producer’s premises, the amount of water that has been consum – – – –

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)