Developing an IoT Identity Management System Using Blockchain

Abstract

Identity (ID) management systems have evolved based on traditional data modelling and authentication protocols that are facing security, privacy, and trust challenges with the growth of Internet of Things (IoT). Research surveys reveal that blockchain technology offers special features of self-sovereign identity and cryptography that can be leveraged to address the issues of security breach and privacy leaks prevalent in existing ID management systems. Although research studies are recently exploring the suitability of blockchain based support to existing infrastructure, there is a lack of focus on IoT ecosystem in the secured ID management with data provenance of digital assets in businesses. In this paper, we propose a blockchain based ID management system for computing assets in an IoT ecosystem comprising of devices, software, users, and data operations. We design and develop a proof-of-concept prototype using a federated and distributed blockchain platform with smart contracts to support highly trusted data storage and secure authentication of IoT resources and operations within a business case scenario.

Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Ensuring Security and Privacy Aspects in Internet of Things: A Systematic Literature Review

“…The primary information of the included papers [ 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 ] is shown in Table 1 . Based on the data shown in Figure 4 , we can observe that 13.95% of the total papers were published in 2018 [ 93 , 103 , 111 , 116 , 120 , 124 ], while 30.23% were published in 2019 [ 90 , 92 , 94 ,…”

“…However, many approaches that include blockchain technology in their designs are achieving promising results. Overall, 37.21% of the proposed schemes originate from China [ 92 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 102 , 104 , 105 , 113 , 114 , 119 , 124 , 125 , 128 , 129 , 132 ], and 62.79% are distributed between 14 countries [ 90 , 91 , 93 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 103 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 126 , 127 , 130 , 131 ]. Most of the included papers are published in journals, which result in 79.07% [ 90 , 91 , 94 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 102 , 104 , …”

“…We included a detailed description of the publishers (name of journal or conference) to address the common databases used. Overall, 51.16% are published in the IEEE database [ 91 , 92 , 96 , 97 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 110 , 111 , 116 , 119 , 120 , 123 , 124 , 127 , 128 , 132 ], 20.93% are published in Elsevier [ 94 , 103 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 117 , 118 , 121 , 122 ], 13.95% are published in MDPI [ 98 , 99 , 109 , 115 , 130 , 131 ], 6.98% are published in Springer [ 93 , 95 , 125 ], and 6.98% are published in Wiley/Hindawi [ 90 , 126 , 129 ].…”

“…From the total percentage of the included articles, 23.25% aimed to target smart environments applications divided into 9.3% for smart home applications [ 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 ], 6.98% presented systems designed to target smart cities [ 116 , 117 , 118 ], and there were 2.32% of each of the following: smart factory [ 119 ], smart traveling [ 124 ], and smart agriculture [ 130 ]. Furthermore, the IoT device gateway [ 111 , 112 ], IoT information systems [ 113 , 114 ], management systems [ 131 , 132 ], cloud environment [ 128 , 129 ], and fog computing [ 125 , 126 ] have carried out 4.65% for each separate application. Finally, the rest (≈6.99%) aimed to address edge computing [ 90 ], mobile IoT applications [ 115 ], and reputation systems [ 127 ].…”

Gerenciamento Descentralizado de Identidades para Cidades Inteligentes Baseado na Tecnologia Blockchain

“…Em[Venkatraman and Parvin 2022], os autores propõem um sistema de gerenciamento de identidades que utiliza uma plataforma de blockchain federada e contratos inteligentes para dar suporte a armazenamento seguro de dados e autenticac ¸ão segura de recursos de IoT. Como prova de conceito do modelo proposto, foi desenvolvido um protótipo considerando um cenário de caso de negócios de uma organizac ¸ão que já gerencia identidades de recursos IoT, onde a soluc ¸ão atual de gerenciamento de identidades não suporta o crescimento do número de dispositivos IoT conectados, nem monitora transac ¸ões de dispositivos automaticamente.…”