IoT security of edge computing

Abstract

IoT is a mesh of physical things or objects that are connected to the Internet. These objects interconnect with external and internal environments with the help of embedded technology. Physical things analyze sense, control, and decide independently or in alliance with other things by way of two-way communication and high-speed control. This is also essential for the smart grid. IoT results from current progress in embedded processing, wireless, and sensing technologies. IoT-based smart grids need six fundamental technologies, which include software-defined objects, model protocols, edge computing-based analysis, intelligent sensing, low cost, and network information security. One of the vital challenges for IoT is managing the large amount of data produced by sensors. Sending this massive amount of data directly to the cloud will create problems of latency, security, privacy, and high bandwidth utilization. On the other hand, its hasty development leads to the neglect of security threats to a large extent in edge computing platforms and their enabled applications.