JTI-Joint Technology Initiatives

nSHIELD, an international JU Artemis (now JU ECSEL) project, collected more than 20 international companies participate for promoting measurable security for the Internet of Things. We have developed a methodology to measure the security of sensor systems and bring new security systems closer to a commercial market. It is all about developing prototypes that help to assess the security of data from sensors and other devices. "Did you have secured your house with a lock that can be opened with a screwdriver?" - No, of course not. The security of data from sensors are far from safety standard that we know from other areas. More and more houses have remote control installed, and we rely on temperature measurements. "Do we have a clue how safe such a remote control and reporting is?" - Exactly this is the main challenge we address through nSHIELD. We have defined security concepts for sensors, gateways and communication interfaces. Through matrices we describe the security of the whole system. From the Norwegian side, we work with two application areas, one in transportation and carpooling, and the other by unmanned objects. Movation, Seek and Find, and Alfatroll are the Norwegian partners in the nSHIELD cooperation. Movation is working on the methodology for measuring security, where such measurable security is needed and how we can communicate the need and nSHIELD's method. Based on the positive results from the project, Movation have engaged a security expert to further analyse the methodology and apply it to entrepreneurial cases. Seek and Find has developed a secure communication device for the transmission of sensor data over the mobile network applications. Alfatroll has developed a method to ensure reliable operation of unmanned aircraft in the airspace. Movation's main focus is to support innovation across firms. What we see is that it needed new and safe models for the distribution of sensor data. Tomorrow's sensors will provide data to a variety of applications, as oppose d to current sensors which typically only report to one application. An example is the smart house, where none of the sensor systems talk to each other. Each vendor uses its own protocol, just as it was on the Internet before the Internet protocol TCP and HTTP reached. Our focus is to describe the method and verify the collection and distribution of sensor data, so the end user can use sensor data and get an indication about the security of data. Seek and Find has developed a Social Mobility prototype 'black box'. This prototype will serve as a 'middleware' between various sensors (humidity, temperature, acceleration and water), this demonstrator is demonstrated presented and provides data to a back side that receives the data and processes them into read able format. Applicability of the SHIELD methodology is implemented and validated for the carpooling scenario, providing measurable privacy. The SHIELD methodology is now taken to two other segments, being the Smart Grid sector and the exchange of data in the care giving segment. Seek and Find (SknFnd) received excellent value through applying the nSHIELD methodology. Development with measurable security of sensor systems and the use of nSHIELD method has given SknFnd a unique technology and a real competitive advantage, which provided first contracts with major international players. Alfatroll has demonstrated autonomous operations in a flight simulator, where the aircraft is controlled by the unique and novel IQ_Engine. This IQ_Engine is based on the pioneering knowledge-based technology that Alfatroll has patented. It all controlled from a ground station acquired (Mission Planner), which communicates with the plane (where IQ_Engine is on board) via a protocol called MAVLink. Integration has taken place with combining the OMNIA communication platform of Selex ES with the IQ_Engine. This integration will help IQ_Engine demonstrating the capabilities of becoming a full component of a modern aircraft electronic system via an Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) platform. The systems' reliability is a major challenge to make the unmanned aircraft capable of operating in common airspace. A key to higher reliability is to replace the complex algorithms with Alfa Troll's innovative knowledge-based «IQ_engine» which is enabled realised and demonstrated u sing nSHIELD project. Alfa Trolls IQ_Engine breaks with traditional thinking about implementing mathematical equations on computers aboard the unmanned aircraft, and the method's behaviour and reliability is demonstrated in the project.

nShield will enable embedded systems as real-time providers for industrial processes. The specific use cases as seen from the Norwegian case is the sensor integration into business systems and the secure access to sensors. These use cases include - The ne w concept of "Socialtainment" based on electrical mobility, including the interaction with your social networks (ESIS) - The addressing of sensors through SMS - through a scalable and secure platform (SMT and Telenor Objects) - Security and Dependability in the railways through the cooperation with the Norwegian Rail Administration (Jernbaneverket - JBV) and Telenor Objects. Movation acts as a mediator between the use-case partners and other Norwegian industries. The main achievements in this project, se en from a Norwegian point of view, are to - demonstrate the ability of including embedded system (ES) information into a industrial processes, - enable these sensor information through generic Internet-based methods, - create the architecture for dependab ility, security and privacy of confidential sensor data, and - provide examples of access rights based on dependabilities of actors. Such an inclusion of information from the edge of the network will contribute to the development of the Internet of Things , and enable "Integrated Operations" as the smarter way of doing business.