Low-cost client-side encryption and secure Internet of things (IoT) provisioning

Abstract

Security and ease of provisioning of IoT devices onto cloud infrastructure is instrumental to the deployment of IoT devices. With not much information available on the ease of secure provisioning of IoT devices couple with inherent challenge of these devices in encrypting data before transmission to the cloud due to their constrained nature, this work implements a low-cost client-side encryption algorithm based on the AES to carry out data encryption at the IoT device’s communication end using a SAMG55 microprocessor, following which the device is securely provisioned to a cloud platform as shown in Fig. 3. Related work and direction for future work is further detailed in Online Resources 1 and Online Resources 2.