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A secure IoT sensors communication in industry 4.0 using blockchain technology

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Industrial IoT in the advancement of organizations consigns to the next level in order to trace and manage every single activity of their entities. However, the interdependence, implementation and communication among such wireless devices also known as IoT devices that lead to various secrecy and personnel concerns. Even though the use of smart sensors in industries assists and reduces human efforts with the increased quality besides of enhanced production cost. Several attacks may further encountered by various attackers by hacking several sensors/objects/devices activities. In this paper, in order to preserve transparency and secure each and every activity of smart sensors, we have proposed a secure wireless mechanism using Blockchain technology that stores extorted proceedings of each record into number of blocks. Further, the simulation results of proposed blockchain mechanism are executed against various security transmission processes. In addition, the simulated results are scrutinized besides traditional mechanism and verified over certain metrics such as Probability of attack success, ease of attack detection by the system, falsification attack, authentication delay and probabilistic scenarios to appraise the authenticity of IoT devices.
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Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (2021) 12:533–545
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-02017-8
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
A secure IoT sensors communication inindustry 4.0 using blockchain
technology
GeetanjaliRathee1· M.Balasaraswathi2· K.PrabhuChandran3· SharmiDevGupta4· C.S.Boopathi5
Received: 19 November 2019 / Accepted: 17 April 2020 / Published online: 28 April 2020
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
Industrial IoT in the advancement of organizations consigns to the next level in order to trace and manage every single
activity of their entities. However, the interdependence, implementation and communication among such wireless devices
also known as IoT devices that lead to various secrecy and personnel concerns. Even though the use of smart sensors in
industries assists and reduces human efforts with the increased quality besides of enhanced production cost. Several attacks
may further encountered by various attackers by hacking several sensors/objects/devices activities. In this paper, in order to
preserve transparency and secure each and every activity of smart sensors, we have proposed a secure wireless mechanism
using Blockchain technology that stores extorted proceedings of each record into number of blocks. Further, the simula-
tion results of proposed blockchain mechanism are executed against various security transmission processes. In addition,
the simulated results are scrutinized besides traditional mechanism and verified over certain metrics such as Probability of
attack success, ease of attack detection by the system, falsification attack, authentication delay and probabilistic scenarios
to appraise the authenticity of IoT devices.
Keywords Industrial IoT· Blockchain· Industry 4.0· Sensors security· IoT devices· Security· Wireless sensors
1 Introduction
Traditionally, the monitoring and controlling system in
industries which oversees product manufacturing details,
records of product (selling or consuming information),
workers information that acts on the value chain, is usually
time consuming, inefficient and slow. The Facilities Manager
has to physically concentrate to the entire control system
that regularly leads to impediment in action (Al-Fuqaha
etal. 2015; Rathee etal. 2019a, b, c, 2020). Further, it is
very difficult to trace the industry’s products and its work-
ers’ locations in real time scenarios. Sometimes, the lack of
traceability in real time derives into inefficiency and dearth
of knowledge about the performance, record of the prod-
uct and workers’ activity may lead to a great loss to the
industry’s growth. Now days, Industry 4.0 (Lee etal. 2015;
Rathee etal. 2019a, b, c, 2020) consigns to the next phase
in the advancement of the organizations to trace and manage
each activity of their individuals. Industry IoT principle is to
gather, analyze, record the information and control the entire
activities of individuals with computerized machine in real
time with abridged production cost and enhanced quality. It
is in a straight line related to the expansion of smart sensors
* Geetanjali Rathee
geetanjali.rathee123@gmail.com
M. Balasaraswathi
balameau2005@gmail.com
K. Prabhu Chandran
prabhuchandran24@gmail.com
Sharmi Dev Gupta
sharmidevgupta@gmail.com
C. S. Boopathi
csbsrm@gmail.com
1 Department ofComputer Science andEngineering, Jaypee
University ofInformation Technology, Waknaghat,Solan,
India
2 Department ofECE, Saveetha School ofEngineering,
Saveetha Institute ofMedical andTechnical Sciences,
Chennai, India
3 Department ofECE, Sreenivasa Institute ofTechnology
andManagement Studies (Autonomous), Chittoor, India
4 AIG PPS AVM, Cognizant Technology Solutions Private
Limited, Unitech, NewTown, Kolkata700156, India
5 Department ofEEE, SRM University, Chennai, India
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