Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the key factors that enables, drives and accelerates the digital transformation all over the world. The vision of the IoT is not only the immediate access to the data but also the ability to turning data into intelligence. As such, there is a growing number of public cloud computing providers offering IoT related services, including data processing, data analyzing and data visualization. However, with tens of billions of microcontroller-powered devices getting involved in the era of IoT, the concerns for overall security, privacy and cost are rising constantly and exponentially. Furthermore, these issues cannot be solved by public cloud computing providers since they mainly focus on the software and services rather than on the end devices. In this article, an integrated solution including Azure Sphere devices and Azure cloud services is proposed to provide a comprehensive and efficient way to ensure security that starts in the device and extends to the cloud with limited budgets. Moreover, the implementation details including hardware components, software design and Azure cloud integration are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed solution.
Highlights
With the rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more network-enabled devices are involved to pave the way for connected vehicles [1], industrial IoT [2,3], connected healthcare [4,5], smart cities [6] and smart home [7] from an infrastructure perspective
Based on the current IoT trend, we propose an integrated solution that includes Azure Sphere devices and Azure cloud services to address the challenges of overall security, cost and device management
We investigated the integration for IoT solutions with large-scale, low-cost and secure end devices
Summary
With the rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more network-enabled devices are involved to pave the way for connected vehicles [1], industrial IoT [2,3], connected healthcare [4,5], smart cities [6] and smart home [7] from an infrastructure perspective. The need to incorporate the high-value security into every low-cost (much cheaper than 10 US dollars) network-connected IoT devices is currently underestimated because of the limited development costs and device capabilities [9,10]. These network-connected devices are extremely vulnerable to aggressive assault from network attackers [11]. This challenge is not considered by public cloud computing providers since their concentration are mainly put on the software and services to make it simple for developing, deploying and maintaining IoT applications. According to the literature [12,13,14,15,16,17], few existing
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