IoT Landscape Report - Industrial Internet of Things

Spa Electrics is a leading manufacturer of premium underwater LED lights for swimming pools & spas today. They decided to create an IoT solution that will give customers the power to operate the lights from wherever they are in the world and we helped them deliver. The solution features a specifically designed Wifi Bridge that communicates with their traditional hardware and a user-friendly mobile application to operate the lights. To provide better user experience, we also implemented voice integration. The product can be operated by both the leading voice assistants Alexa and Google Home.

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Manufacturing is all about intelligent machines making more intelligent machines, and a big part of that intelligence is driven by the IoT which empowers appliances, gadgets, vehicles and more to diagnose themselves, generate reports, study user behavior and adapt themselves to provide better experiences. At [x]cube LABS, we have helped organisations augment their products with smart capabilities which have then provided organisations with valuable data at every stage of the automation process, helping them improve processes, build better and reduce operational expenses.

In our report, we have detailed how we help business leaders in manufacturing transform their processes and the results we have delivered for them. We are able to do this as we know that business leaders have to cultivate and stay up to speed with every technology and hardware advancements on the horizon, such as

Robotic Process Automation (R.P.A), which is big in the industrial space. This knowledge will help them understand what kind of a future workforce (man and machine) should they be creating for their organizations to keep breaking new ground. We often sit down with decision makers within the manufacturing industry and work together to craft these visions. Through a number of workshops, surveys, curriculum development exercises and preparation of in-depth reports of how a manufacturing company can undergo successful digital transformation, we have forged some great partnerships to drive productivity and revenue across major functional areas.

IoT faces several challenges as it tries to gain a larger market share in the business world. With more IoT connected devices come more security risks across the critical infrastructure of an organisation which is going to be a major area of its weakness. Security threats could be due to privacy, encryption of data, hardware issues, web interfaces, insecure software, lack of network awareness, side channel attacks and rogue connected devices.

While these might appear daunting to business leaders, our report gives you everything you need to know about making IoT security solutions a part of your development plans from day 1. We also detail our approach to building these solutions on the Internet of Things platform so that every release you put out is protected with top-notch security measures to keep user data safe.

Here’s a sneak peek into a few development best practices that you need to keep in mind. As part of our commitment to building secure IoT solutions, we insist on these.

Authenticate communications: Don’t avoid authenticating any communication irrespective of device-device or end-user. For device-device, use public key infrastructure and certificates that are deployed to each device in the system. For end-user authentication, use username/password, certificate, or two-factor authentication.

Encrypt every data transmitted: It’s best to use industry standard, reviewed cryptographic functions for encrypting data transmitted through your IoT systems.

Enable secure OTA updates : Frequent Over the Air (OTA) updates will go a long way to secure IoT devices but they should be cryptographically signed updates from the venture which needs to pass a thorough check to ensure that it is valid and from a trusted party. It’s very important to provide a secure update mechanism right from the design of the hardware, and patch updates for vulnerabilities should happen OTA, with no interactions required by the user at the site.

Focus on web vulnerabilities: Open-Source is everywhere, IoT is not exceptional. Open-Source software suffers from vulnerabilities at the same rate as custom-written code. Developers should watch for the published vulnerability fixes, update the software, test the integration, and then deploy an update to limit the risk.

In-built Security: This must be a conscious choice for the developer as an increase in IoT device base and the amount of data being transmitted through them is formidable. Developers should understand encryption and ensure that it's utilised, track open-source updates and check that it's properly updated and run OWASP to determine that it's secure. All of this is possible only with a focused effort on security.