Future Internet Public Private Partnership Research Articles

Vulnerability Detection in Intelligent Environments Authenticated by the OAuth 2.0 Protocol over HTTP/HTTPS

OAuth 2.0 provides an open secure protocol for authorizing users across the web. However, many modalities of this standard allow these protections to be implemented optionally. Thus, its use does not guarantee security by itself and some of the deployment options in the OAuth 2.0 specification can lead to incorrect settings. FIWARE is an open platform for developing Internet applications of the future. It is the result of the international entity Future Internet Public-Private Partnership. [1,2] FIWARE was designed to provide a broad set of API to stimulate the development of new businesses in the context of the European Union. This platform can be understood as a modular structure to reach a broad spectrum of applications such as IoT, big data, smart device management, security, open data, and virtualization, among others. Regarding security, the exchange of messages between its components is done through the OAuth 2.0 protocol. The objective of the present work is to create a system that allows the detection and analysis of vulnerabilities of OAuth 2.0, executed on HTTP/HTTPS in an on-premise development environment focused on the management of IoT devices and to help developers to implement them ensuring security for these environments. Through the system proposed by this paper, it was possible to find vulnerabilities in FIWARE components in HTTP/HTTPS environments. With this evidence, mitigations were proposed based on the mandatory recommendations by the IETF.

Instrumentation and measurement for power systems in european projects

This paper presents an overview of instrumentation and measurement (I&M) topics in power systems as they appear in recently completed and current projects funded by the European Commission. An overview helps to identify the evolutions to be expected in this technical area, which are considered critical to European competitiveness in the global landscape. In particular, this is achieved by exploiting I&M for securing the present and future sustainable energy supply, which will unlock markets (especially markets of services) to new and existing businesses. The projects referenced here are funded, for the most part under two large programs. One is the Seventh Programme for Research and Development (2007-2013) called FP-7 [1], where the latest projects are in their last year right now. The other one is the new H2020 (2014-2020) [2] program, the largest European research program ever with its 80 billion euro. Some projects in particular are funded through initiatives for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) within these larger programs. Also, one particularly large project referenced here is funded by the EU Future Internet Public- Private Partnership (FI-PPP). The complete database of EU projects can be found at [3]. The structure of the programs and funding is fairly articulated. The power system measurement and monitoring activities are predominantly funded within ICT and Energy calls. The projects cover all technology readiness levels, with emphasis though on field demonstrations of significantly large scale.

Security issues and threats that may affect the hybrid cloud of FINESCE

FINESCE is the Smart Energy use case project of the Future Internet Public Private Partnership Programme. It aims at defining an open infrastructure based on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) used to develop new solutions and applications in all fields of Future Internet related to the energy sector. To accomplish this goal a cloud-based environment is proposed, providing high scalability, fast provisioning, resilience and cost efficiency, while facilitating the deployment of applications and services for utilities.The proposed solution for Smart Energy system encompasses Cloud Computing technologies taking advantage of the service delivery models that it provides (Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)) over different cloud deployment solutions (Private, Public, Hybrid, Community). Therefore, it is necessary to study their implications, particularly with regard to security and data privacy, whether in transit or stored data, of the cloud solution chosen.The present paper aims to gather basic security requirements in deploying a solution based on Cloud Computing highlighting issues in hybrid clouds because this is the deployment model used in Smart Energy use case. It also exposes attacks and vulnerabilities related to Cloud Computing to be considered for implementing a secure environment for FIDEV, the private platform implementation. Moreover, the security requirements for Smart Energy use case are defined. And, finally, the results of a security audit performed over the testbed platform that simulates a distributed storage solution for FINESCE project are presented.

A Farm Management Information System Using Future Internet Technologies

Agricultural production management is entering into a new era where every day farmer’s decisions are supported by highly sophisticated Farm Management Information Systems (FMISs). The latter have evolved from simple record keeping software into complex systems that can manipulate large amounts of data and provide decision support capabilities. In this paper, the development of an FMIS, which utilizes new technologies, such as those which were introduced by the European initiative Future Internet Public-Private Partnership Program (FI-PPP), is described. The developed application is focused upon individual farmers or farmer cooperatives, who wish to perform precision agriculture via the usage of mobile devices and modern technology. The main focus is to perform farm financial analysis based on all farm transactions but also estimating profitability based upon fixed values that the farmer imports. The application was successfully tested on a winter wheat crop (Triticum aestivum L.) for one season, where all related costs were recorded.

Electronic Health Record Application Support Service Enablers.

There is a huge need for open source software solutions in the healthcare domain, given the flexibility, interoperability and resource savings characteristics they offer. In this context, this paper presents the development of three open source libraries - Specific Enablers (SEs) for eHealth applications that were developed under the European project titled "Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research" (FI-STAR) funded under the "Future Internet Public Private Partnership" (FI-PPP) program. The three SEs developed under the Electronic Health Record Application Support Service Enablers (EHR-EN) correspond to: a) an Electronic Health Record enabler (EHR SE), b) a patient summary enabler based on the EU project "European patient Summary Open Source services" (epSOS SE) supporting patient mobility and the offering of interoperable services, and c) a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) enabler (PACS SE) based on the dcm4che open source system for the support of medical imaging functionality. The EHR SE follows the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) V2.0 and supports the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles (recently awarded in Connectathon 2015). These three FI-STAR platform enablers are designed to facilitate the deployment of innovative applications and value added services in the health care sector. They can be downloaded from the FI-STAR cataloque website. Work in progress focuses in the validation and evaluation scenarios for the proving and demonstration of the usability, applicability and adaptability of the proposed enablers.

Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork

800x600 At the present time, we are facing an emerging problem which will become even more urgent and critical in the coming decades: the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates an increase of the world population from the current 6 billion people to 9-11 billion people by 2050 leading to a doubling of world-wide food demand. It is generally believed that that smart, data-rich ICT-services and applications, in combination with advanced hardware, can provide the much needed breakthroughs to producing enough good quality food in a safe and environmental-sound way. Therefore, the EU’s Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) program ( www.fi-ppp.eu ) aims to make service infrastructures and business processes more intelligent, more efficient and more sustainable through tighter integration with Future Internet (FI) technologies. Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE