Smart Services using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications are on the rise, but still more often than not, traditional industrial protocols are used to interconnect the entities of the resulting systems. These protocols are mostly not intended for functioning in such a highly interconnected environment and, therefore, often lack even the most fundamental security measures. To address this issue, this paper reasons on the security of a communications protocol, intended for Machine to machine (M2M) communications, namely the Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and exemplifies, on a smart energy system, its capability to serve as a secure communications architecture by either itself or in conjunction with traditional protocols.
@article{arxiv.1809.00464,
title = {Reasoning on Adopting OPC UA for an IoT-Enhanced Smart Energy System from a Security Perspective},
author = {Stefan Marksteiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00464},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 773715, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 20th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)