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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - M-Sec (Multi-layered Security technologies to ensure hyper connected smart cities with Blockchain, BigData, Cloud and IoT)

Teaser

Summary

State-of-the-art IoT systems in Smart cities tends to be build around the concept of IoT/Cloud convergence, which foresees the integration of heteregenous data streams within one or more cloud infrastructures. This wave of IoT/cloud systems enables IoT systems to benefit from the scalability, performance and capacity of the cloud, which has been proven very efficient for certain classes of IoT applications. Nevertheless, these architectures promote a centralized data collection and processing approach, which introduces several limitations both in terms of the supported applications and in terms of the business models that they enable. Moreover, in modern smart city applications there is an emerging need of end-to-end security since many data sources may contain sensitive information that raises issue on privacy and data protection. T With the aim of providing end-to-end security and privacy, M-Sec major goal is to to research, develop, deploy and demonstrate multi-layered Security technologies to ensure hyper connected smart cities and empower IoT stakeholders with an innovative platform which leverages blockchain, BigData, Cloud and IoT security, upon which they can build innovative smart city applications. The project will explore secure, interoperable interactions between IoT elements based on a holistic secured cloud/edge/IoT context within a future smart city. Overall, the M-Sec paradigm will complement mainstream IoT/cloud technologies, through enabling the introduction and implementation of specific classes of applications and services, which are not efficiently supported by state-of-the-art architectures.

The individual Scientific and Technical objectives of the M-Sec project are:
1) To design the future decentralized architecture of IoT.
2) To enable seamless and highly autonomous and secure interaction between humans and devices in the context of a smart city.
3) To engineer new levels of security and trust in large scale autonomous and trust-less multipurpose smart city platforms and integrate privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) at the design level of M-Sec\'s architecture.
4) To create reference implementations of future decentralized IoT ecosystems and validate their viability and sustainability.
5) To maximize the impact of the project benefits.

Work performed

\"The project is organised into five main work packages combining the necessary partners and expertise for assuring successful execution and impact in the Europe-Japan level. On the one site, three project implementation work-packages are focused on the analysis and definition of the M-Sec framework, implementation and methodologies as well as the evaluation of the overall approach with respect to the selected use cases and pilots to be involved in the project. On the other site,two project horizontal work-packages related to communication, dissemination and exploitation, as well as, to the project and consortium management.

Since the beginning of the project, the consortium has been focused mainly on defining in detail each of the six use cases and the corresponding pilots associated which will be implemented over the top of the M-Sec platform. For that, some actions have been carried out to gather requirements from different stakeholders involved in order to better align use cases. In addition, the consortium have already identified what will be the infrastructure to be deployed, how the pilot set up is planned, the recruitment plan and engagement of end users complying with GDPR and ethics plan and the KPIs to enable evaluation of each of the pilots to be conducted.

On the other side, significant results have been achieved during the first year concerning the system level and user requirements and functional specifications of the paltform\'s architecture. During the first year of the project, the consortium has been working on identifying system and use cases related requirements that reflect real citizenâ€™s needs, and consolidating all of them in a way that will facilitate the design of the overall M-Sec system. In addition, the consortium has produced the functional specification of the M-Sec system and provided detail of the features to be supported. M-Sec architecture will keep getting refined as work progresses in other work packages. Once the first prototypes of WP4 \"\"Multi Secure Layers\"\" are completed, the architecture will be extended and will include the new components introduced and developed in several layers.

Since M10, partners are working on the different security frameworks (IoT Security, Cloud and data level security, P2P level security and blockchain, application level security) that will be all integrated into a single platform. As it was initiated on M10, progress is at early stage. All applicable objectives are set to be achieved during the second year of the project by having ready on M18 the first prototypes of security layers.

Dissemination and exploitation activities have been running since the project started and have been crucial for the success of the projectâ€™s progress and will continue on going until the finalization of the project. During the first twelve months, the consortium has perfomed the following tasks: the creation of a robust M-Sec brand and visual identity; the development of the project website and dissemination strategy; the implementation of communication activities (such as news articles and blog posts, newsletters, social media engagement); the development of the first version of the Market Analysis and Exploitation report; the creation of the M-Sec community and plan for its growth and facilitation; the necessary activities to ensure compliance with GDPR.

Finally, Project and Innovation Management has been crucial for thee succeed on the project\'s progress, ensuring a proper co-ordination across tasks and partner and risk monitorization.
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Final results

The M-Sec project will deliver a set of concrete and added value main results. These are:
- M-Sec distributed, robust and trusted smart city platforms based on IoT, cloud, Big Data and blockchain technologies.
- M-Sec IoT marketplace: An innovative and open IoT market of applications, data and services.
- M-Sec smart city ecosystem: a sustainable ecosystem of stakeholders, roles, tools and infrastructures upon which new entrants (e.g. startups, SMEs) and other players (e.g. developer communities, students, entrepreneurs) can build and experiment with the hyper-connected smart city applications.
- Revenue model and replication plan

The M-Sec will provide a disruptive innovation on how people and machines are going to use the IoT infrastructures. This is going to have a multiple impact in areas such as smart cities, smart buildings, utilities, industry etc. M-Sec will democratize access to IoT infrastructure and will lower the barrier to new players to get on board of the smart cities value chain. This will contribute to technological literacy, social inclusion and increase participation in economic and social affairs in general. Young people have great, innovative ideas but frequently struggle with setting up a successful and sustainable business on top of IoT infrastructure due to the fact that these infrastructures are mainly ruled by single entities (whether they are big vendors or public authorities). M-Sec will tackle these problems. Its platform, APIs, demonstrators, and ecosystem will be secure and open increasing thus the social participation of more people into it.