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G V Ihita – IoT enabled smart cities

Gangavarapu Vigneswara Ihita,  supervised by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari received her Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). Here’s a summary of her research work on Security for IoT enabled smart cities:

Smart cities leverage IoT to improve citizens’ quality of life by providing beer infrastructure, enhanced transportation systems, and efficient public services. With IoT-enabled smart city applications receiving tracon, mechanisms must be implemented to cater to the diverse requirements of the use cases. The increasing number of connected devices increases the risk of cyber-attacks and breaches. Further, smart cities rely heavily on integrating critical infrastructure such as power grids and water treatment plants. Securing these systems is crucial to protect citizens and institutions from potential harm caused by attacks. However, securing the IoT ecosystem is a challenging task. There are constraints on processing, memory, and energy consumption in addition to interoperability challenges, cost, and complexity. Designing and implementing the appropriate security controls for the devices and services requires on-ground testing and analysis. This thesis explores and analyses the security of IoT-enabled smart cities. The work consists of two main contributions. First, IoT security requirements, potential threats, and vulnerabilies to the various layers of IoT are analysed. Vulnerability assessment and modelling of threats are performed on the air quality monitoring vertical of the smart city deployment of IIIT-H to gain visibility into the baseline security requirements. The recommendations and state-of-the-art solutions are extensible to applications that require Wi-Fi and mobile network-based security for large-scale IoT deployments. Second, the entire smart city deployment was examined, covering applications such as air quality monitoring, water quantity management, weather monitoring, and energy monitoring. With each application operang using different hardware components, communication technologies, and software dependencies, requirements such as interoperability, scalability, resiliency, and security are essential. This study focused on the provisions of the oneM2M standard in catering to these requirements and its role in smart ci es. Experiments were conducted on the OM2M platform, an implementation of oneM2M, used in the smart city deployment of IIIT-H. The recommendations are a foundation for the security of oneM2M-based smart city applications.

July 2023