IoT Security (IoTSec) Mechanisms For e-Health and Ambient Assisted Living Applications

摘要

The Internet Of Things (IoT) is poised to make substantial inroads in all aspects of modern life before the end of this decade, including applications in smart grids, smart cities, transportation, crowdsensing, e-health, ambient assisted living, and home automation, to list just a few. Although it is recognized that IoTSec mechanisms and principles are needed across the entire IoT ecosystem, many of the intrinsic features of IoT systems make the IoT vulnerable to cybersecurity breaches. Firms wonder if the mechanisms required to protect the users and the data are ready for "prime time", especially in the ehealth arena. The field of big data as related to security event processing, is relatively new, especially in the context of IoT; challenges include but are not limited to capture, transmission, analysis and curation of the data. This article provides a novel IoT protocol architecture and examines security tools and techniques that can be leveraged as part of the deployment of IoT; these mechanisms are particularly important in e-health and assisted living applications.