PIT

Privacy in the Future Internet of Things

PIT is a research project supported by the Austrian programme FIT-IT Trust in IT Systems. The consortium consists of three consortium partners, namely IAIK, Infineon Technologies Austria AG, and RF-iT Solutions. The project started on 1st of April 2010 and the duration is expected to be 24 months.

Project Description

The all-embracing network of objects, which are able to communicate with each other and exchange all types of information, is commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT). Amongst the manifold technological and sociological challenges within this emerging technology, privacy protection is one of the major issues. Within the project PIT we aim at providing a comprehensive set of privacy mechanisms that protects the IoT from threats like tracking and tracing and provides services like anonymous authentication. We will also implement and test the most promising approaches on "real" IoT-devices. The special focus of this evaluation work lies on low-end devices like passive RFID tags and smart cards.

Within the project we want to develop an evaluation platform that allows flexibly assessing the suggested privacy-protection mechanisms for low-end IoT-devices. This evaluation platform consist of device emulators, a use model with hardware and software libraries, and according tool-chain support. It can be used to implement prototypes of security-enabled IoT-devices. These prototypes can also be used as a reference model for future products and applications.