Secure privacy preserving information beacons for public transportation systems

Schulz, Thorsten; Golatowski, Frank; Timmermann, Dirk

doi:10.1109/percomw.2016.7457096

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“…IoT has already enabled more effective monitoring, enhanced decision-making and effectiveness in sectors such as eHealth [ 10 , 11 ], smart cities [ 12 ], defense [ 13 , 14 ] and high-security applications [ 15 , 16 , 17 ], precision agriculture [ 18 ], transportation [ 19 , 20 , 21 ] or Industry 4.0 [ 22 , 23 , 24 ]. Current IoT systems are characterized by the use of resource-constrained electronic devices with reduced memory, limited communication capabilities, low computing power, and a high dependence on batteries.…”

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Design and Practical Evaluation of a Family of Lightweight Protocols for Heterogeneous Sensing through BLE Beacons in IoT Telemetry Applications

Rojas

Fernández‐Caramés

Fraga‐Lamas

et al. 2017

Sensors

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The Internet of Things (IoT) involves a wide variety of heterogeneous technologies and resource-constrained devices that interact with each other. Due to such constraints, IoT devices usually require lightweight protocols that optimize the use of resources and energy consumption. Among the different commercial IoT devices, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based beacons, which broadcast periodically certain data packets to notify their presence, have experienced a remarkable growth, specially due to their application in indoor positioning systems. This article proposes a family of protocols named Lightweight Protocol for Sensors (LP4S) that provides fast responses and enables plug-and-play mechanisms that allow IoT telemetry systems to discover new nodes and to describe and auto-register the sensors and actuators connected to a beacon. Thus, three protocols are defined depending on the beacon hardware characteristics: LP4S-6 (for resource-constraint beacons), LP4S-X (for more powerful beacons) and LP4S-J (for beacons able to run complex firmware). In order to demonstrate the capabilities of the designed protocols, the most restrictive (LP4S-6) is tested after implementing it for a telemetry application in a beacon based on Eddystone (Google’s open beacon format). Thus, the beacon specification is extended in order to increase its ability to manage unlimited sensors in a telemetry system without interfering in its normal operation with Eddystone frames. The performed experiments show the feasibility of the proposed solution and its superiority, in terms of latency and energy consumption, with respect to approaches based on Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) when multiple users connect to a mote or in scenarios where latency is not a restriction, but where low-energy consumption is essential.

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Design and Practical Evaluation of a Family of Lightweight Protocols for Heterogeneous Sensing through BLE Beacons in IoT Telemetry Applications

Rojas

Fernández‐Caramés

Fraga‐Lamas

et al. 2017

Sensors

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“…The evaluation of the impact is limited to a location heatmap illustrating a change in the distributions of occupants inside the area. In [14], the authors have implemented a BLE beacon prototype that adds a secure signature to the advertisement packet. They evaluated their solution in a tram maintenance shed to provide navigation instructions in a public transport context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating the impact of malicious spoofing attacks on Bluetooth low energy based occupancy detection systems

Oliff

Filippoupolitis

Loukas

2017

2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA)

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Abstract-Occupancy detection of a building has a wide range of applications. Areas such as emergency management, home automation and building energy management can benefit from the knowledge of occupants' locations to provide better results and improve their efficiency. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons installed inside a building are able to provide information on an occupant's location. Since, however, their operation is based on broadcasting advertisements, they are vulnerable to network security breaches. In this work, we evaluate the effect of two types of spoofing attacks on a BLE based occupancy detection system. The system is composed of BLE beacons installed inside the building, a mobile application installed on occupants mobile phones and a remote control server. Occupancy detection is performed by a classifier installed on the remote server. We use our real-world experimental results to evaluate the impact of these attacks on the system's operation, particularly in terms of the accuracy with which it can provide location information.

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“…The security of the communication is considered in almost all devices, even though it is an aspect that still presents problems [71]. There are, however, solutions based on secure signatures [72]. …”

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confidence: 99%

State of the Art, Trends and Future of Bluetooth Low Energy, Near Field Communication and Visible Light Communication in the Development of Smart Cities

García

Ruiz

Gómez‐Nieto

2016

Sensors

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The current social impact of new technologies has produced major changes in all areas of society, creating the concept of a smart city supported by an electronic infrastructure, telecommunications and information technology. This paper presents a review of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Near Field Communication (NFC) and Visible Light Communication (VLC) and their use and influence within different areas of the development of the smart city. The document also presents a review of Big Data Solutions for the management of information and the extraction of knowledge in an environment where things are connected by an “Internet of Things” (IoT) network. Lastly, we present how these technologies can be combined together to benefit the development of the smart city.

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Secure privacy preserving information beacons for public transportation systems

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Design and Practical Evaluation of a Family of Lightweight Protocols for Heterogeneous Sensing through BLE Beacons in IoT Telemetry Applications

Design and Practical Evaluation of a Family of Lightweight Protocols for Heterogeneous Sensing through BLE Beacons in IoT Telemetry Applications

Evaluating the impact of malicious spoofing attacks on Bluetooth low energy based occupancy detection systems

State of the Art, Trends and Future of Bluetooth Low Energy, Near Field Communication and Visible Light Communication in the Development of Smart Cities

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