IoT enablers and their security and privacy issues

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most important future evolutions of the Internet where computing as well as non-computing elements will be Internetenabled. It is expected that over 50 billion such things will be Internet-enabled in the next half a decade. The technologies that enable such a large and complex future Internet will be a collection of communication approaches commonly referred to as enablers of IoT. A detailed survey of the potential enablers of IoT has been done in this chapter and an estimation of their current state of development along with their security and privacy issues presented. The key enablers of IoT considered are:(i) Electronic Product Code Global (EPCGlobal), (ii)Wireless HighwayAddressableRemote Transducer (WirelessHART), (iii) ZigBee, (iv) Near Field Communication (NFC), (v) IPv6 over Low powerWireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN), and (vi) Developers’ Alliance for Standards Harmonization (Dash7). Finally, a detailed qualitative comparison of the technological merits and demerits of the enablers of IoT has been done.