SureThing

Workshop

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Advances in Internet of Things and Location

The SureThing workshop will present innovative developments, technologies, and challenges related to Internet of Things at large, and Location Based Services (LBS) in particular. Other relevant topics are: connected vehicles and 5G communications.

The workshop will feature a keynote talk by Prof. Joshua Siegel (MIT, MSU), a panel discussion with researchers and practitioners, from industry and academia, and presentation of intermediate results from the SureThing project that is building location proof systems for the Internet of Things. The project’s goal is to enable ubiquitous and pervasive applications with robust location proofs.

Keywords

Internet of Things, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Mobile Computing, Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Location-Based Service, Location Proof System

Venue

Hotel Roma, Av. de Roma 33, 1749-074 Lisboa, Portugal

Entrance to conference room: R. Infante Dom Pedro, 6

Register

Admission is free but the seating is limited.

Please register for the Workshop here

Program

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Start	End	Description	Slides
09:00	09:15	Welcome	PDF
09:15	10:30	Keynote talk: Dr. Joshua Siegel	PDF
10:30	11:00	coffee break
11:00	12:30	SureThing project presentations - overview and use cases	Overview, CROSS, STOP, SmartSpaces, Privacy
12:30	14:00	lunch
14:00	15:30	Panel Discussion (Industry and Academic)	PDF
15:30	16:00	coffee break
16:00	17:00	use case brainstorm session / closing	PDF

About

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Summary

The scale and geographic dispersion of the Internet of Things (IoT) will surpass the size of the current day Internet in, at least, 3 orders of magnitude. The IoT will be the largest and most widely distributed system ever, with a multitude of connected sensors and actuators. The majority of the interactions will occur between machines – M2M (Machine-to-Machine) – without human intervention. The current Internet already has some serious, unresolved security problems. Adding physical world autonomous connections brings even more concerns about attacks and their consequences to people and goods.

The SureThing project is addressing a timely IoT security need: creating and validating location certificates. The project’s goal is to allow for constrained devices, needed in the provisioning of IoT services, to obtain proof of their location or to request proof of location to other devices. The certificates issued using the SureThing framework will contain location data, obtained and verified using one or more state-of-the-art techniques. These include locality-sensitive network measurements, using WiFi and Bluetooth fingerprinting, and ambience sensing. The existing techniques only consider the use of smartphones. We are researching ways to adapt these techniques to more limited devices and to protocols better suited to the IoT, like COAP and MQTT. The framework will be extensible in order to allow for the novel techniques developed in this project or by the research community to be easily integrated as they appear.

The SureThing framework will allow developers to choose between faster location proofs and more reliable proofs, which will be digitally signed and kept in a ledger. The witness models – providing a validation role for other devices at the same location – will play an important role, particularly when only limited cryptographic mechanisms are available. The witness models assist in validating location, and provide orchestrations involving identity providers and using anonymization techniques to assure adequate witness privacy protection.

Use cases

This project will validate its contributions with two use cases. The first, ‘Smart Tourism’, a key economic sector in Portugal, which will build an application providing tourists with awards for each visit to a predefined set of locations, making use of reliable fast location proofs. The second, ‘Smart Taxes’, will combine the new locations proofs with digital notaries with time-stamping and long-term proof archival. The proof ledger will be made available using distributed models, based on Block-chain techniques for collusion-resistant proofs.

The widespread use of SureThing location proofs will significantly improve the security decisions of policies for the IoT. This will lead to more secure and trustable services in the near future.

Funding

SureThing is a scientific project funded by the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology (FCT) with reference No. PTDC/CCI-COM/31440/2017. The project runs from 01-10-2018 to 30-09-2022 and its total budget is EUR 238.517,78.

Team

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Team

The SureThing team was composed by members from INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico.

	Name	Role	Contact
	Miguel L. Pardal	Project Manager
	Ricardo Chaves	Project Manager
	Samih Eisa	Researcher with PhD
	Lucas Vicente	MSc Student
	Ricardo Grade	MSc Student
	Rafael Figueiredo	MSc Student
	Tiago Fonseca	MSc Student
	João Soares	MSc Student
	Pedro Rosa	PhD Student
	Miguel C. Francisco	MSc Student
	Pedro M. Carvalho	MSc Student
	Pedro F. Teixeira	MSc Student
	José A. Ferrão	MSc Student
	João R. P. Ferreira	MSc
	Diogo M. P. Calado	MSc
	Ricardo S. Miranda	MSc
	Gabriel A. Maia	MSc
	Henrique F. Santos	MSc
	Pedro E. Carmo	MSc
	Sheng Wang	MSc
	João M. Tiago	MSc
	João N. Costa	MSc
	Kevin B. Corrales	MSc
	Rui L. Claro	PhD Student
	Gonçalo E. Pires	MSc Student

Contact

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Please contact us at: mailto:coordinator@surething.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

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