Presentation of a Development Kit for IoT Applications and a Potential Solution for Communications Security

摘要

This kit was developed through a collaboration between the private sector and the academic staff, students and graduates from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology. It represents a donation/sponsorship from Bitron Electronics Engineering SRL, the Iasi (Romania) branch of Bitron Group [1], a worldwide Italian company to the Telecommunications Department of the faculty. The development team included several disciplines such as hardware, software, PCB layout, mechanics and project-management and the resulting IoT kit can be used by researchers and students to develop and test various applications within the Internet of Things framework. This paper presents the components of this kit and its capabilities and highlights potential further development in the automotive area. Different sensors acquire information from the physical environment and data is being sent to a remote communication node that centralizes data traffic in a wireless sensor network. Authors develop a C program for an encryption application that runs on the board in order to secure the values obtained from the sensors and sent to the central node by the wireless adapter.