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With the continued improvement and innovation, technology has become an integral part of our daily lives. The rapid adoption of technology and its affordability has given rise to the Internet-of-Things (IoT). IoT is an interconnected network of devices that are able to communicate and share information seamlessly. IoT encompasses a gamut of heterogeneous devices ranging from a small sensor to large industrial machines. One such domain of IoT that has seen a significant growth in the recent few years is that of the wearable devices. While the privacy issues for medical devices has been well-researched and documented in the literature, the threats to privacy arising from the use of consumer wearable devices have received very little attention from the research community. This paper presents a survey of the literature to understand the various privacy challenges, mitigation strategies, and future research directions as a result of the widespread adoption of wearable devices.
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Solid-if-IoT: An Internet of Things Client Bridge to Interface with Solid Backend Infrastructure
Web decentralization has the potential to radically change the way we produce, store, and manage data. Much of the focus of decentralization has been on blockchain tech-nologies which have high energy requirements. An alternative and potentially complementary decentralization technology exists in the form of the Solid project. Solid primarily exists for the decentralization of online social data that is prevalent in social media. However, many of the key challenges to realizing a decentralized social web exist in the current Internet of Things (IoT). IoT-especially industrial IoT-is currently a collection of many intranets of things rather than an interconnected network of machines. Those devices that are public facing produce data and consume commands often devoid of context. Devices at the edge are resource constrained and the overhead of many decentralization technologies may be technologically infeasible or would result in performance degradation. It is our hypothesis that a mechanism to overcome some of these challenges can exist in the form of a client bridge to integrate IoT devices with the Solid infrastructure, which would in turn enable finer access control and improved context that are necessary to realize a more interconnected Internet of Things. This work demonstrates the feasibility of this paradigm, and plots future directions to bring this technology to fruition.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2237945
- PAR ID:
- 10510379
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 979-8-3503-0858-7
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 227 to 231
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Springdale, AR, USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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