Scalable Extensible Secured and Safe Smart Gateway Platform Solution for Smart Grid/ Energy and IoT

Abstract

IoT is here to stay, while the use of IPv6 is imperative to connect all devices globally via Internet, where security and networking safety is of primary concern.

This paper takes the example of the multi-billion dollar Smart Grid market and describes the security concerns for the applications in this market: Smart Meter, Data Concentrator, Sub Station Automation and the cloud-connected SCADA, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions network. For each of the segments/application the security concerns are analyzed and solutions to these concerns are proposed whilst addressing the IoT market opportunities. The four pillars of network security viz. Integrity, Availability, Confidentiality, Non-repudiation as specified by NIST SP 800 82 [1] , NERC and IEEE are addressed in the proposed solutions. Apart from security; performance and scalability are given due importance and consideration both from software and hardware perspective in the proposed platform solution.

Freescale’s M2M (Machine-to-Machine) and IoT end-to-end security solutions provided in this paper can be extended to other areas like smart energy, smart health, smart transportation, smart factory, enterprise and residential (smart home) and make connected intelligence a reality.