The lack of interoperability among IoT platforms has led to a fragmented environment, where the users and society as a whole suffer from lock-ins, lack of privacy, and reduced functionality. This paper presents SOFIE, a solution for federating the existing IoT platforms in an open and secure manner using Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and without requiring modifications to the IoT platforms, and describes how SOFIE is used to enable two complex real life pilots: food supply chain tracking from field to fork and electricity distribution grid balancing with guided electrical vehicle (EV) charging. SOFIE's main contribution is to provide interoperability between IoT systems while also enabling new functionality and business models.
@article{arxiv.1908.02487,
title = {Secure Open Federation of IoT Platforms Through Interledger Technologies -- The SOFIE Approach},
author = {Dmitrij Lagutin and Francesco Bellesini and Tommaso Bragatto and Alessio Cavadenti and Vincenzo Croce and Yki Kortesniemi and Helen C. Leligou and Yannis Oikonomidis and George C. Polyzos and Giuseppe Raveduto and Francesca Santori and Panagiotis Trakadas and Matteo Verber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02487},
year = {2019}
}
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5 pages. European Conference on Networking and Communications 2019 (EuCNC 2019)