Intel announces secure, automatic IoT deployment in seconds
Announced at the IoT Solution World Congress in Barcelona, the service is designed to “vastly” boost the speed and scalability of IoT deployments by using a “zero-touch” automated onboarding process. Traditionally, IoT deployments require IT personnel to manually key in each device identity, coordinate network credentials, and register each device.
Intel SDO enables users to simply power on devices, at which point the service dynamically sets up the initial connectivity, authenticates the device, and registers it with the IoT platform’s methods automatically — in seconds. The service delivers privacy protection and a secure device baseline, the company claims, ready for update.
Intel SDO uses the company’s Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID) – released in 2008 – to deliver a means of anonymously authenticating devices to remote IoT platforms. An open standard that is distributed within the company’s processors as well as by a variety of major microcontroller providers, EPID is, says the company, fast becoming a best practice identity model for IoT, with over 2.7 billion keys distributed since 2008.
The company says it has been working closely with more than 30 ecosystem partners to begin enabling their solutions for the Intel SDO onboarding model. Ecosystem partners can use Intel’s software development toolkits and cross-platform onboarding service to enable any device to onboard to any IoT platform in a single session, as opposed to a one-off configuration for each platform method.
Intel is pre-enabling cloud service platform marketplaces such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS IoT; targeted IoT platform ISVs such as Device Authority, Neustar, Forgerock, Hitachi Lumada, and Wind River Helix Device Cloud; and solution providers such as British Telecom, NTT Communications, and Schneider Electric.
Looking ahead, the company says it plans to evolve Intel SDO onboarding capabilities to leverage its recent investments in blockchain technology. Using that alternative trust model, an SDO-enabled device could query the blockchain to find the device owner, and ownership could be programmatically reassigned to an authorized use.
Intel SDO
Intel SDO product brief (PDF)
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