Inlecom Systems Limited

Takis Katsoulakos

Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan

Konstantinos Loupos

Gerasimos Kouloumpis

Alexander Papageorgiou

Internet-of-Things (IoT) prioritized sensor authentication management includes receiving in an IoT gateway different packets of data from different sensors over a computer communications network. For each received packet of data from a corresponding one of the different sensors, the received packet of data is compared to a pattern associated with the corresponding one of the different sensors. On the condition that the received packet of data is within a threshold of similarity to the pattern, a sensor value may be extracted from the received packet of data and transmitted to a sensor monitor. But otherwise, the received packet of data is placed into quarantine in memory of the IoT gateway, authentication of the corresponding one of the different sensors is performed, and in response to the authentication, the packet is released from quarantine, the sensor value extracted from the received packet of data and transmitted to the sensor monitor.

Pattern driven selective sensor authentication for internet of things

An IoT sensor authentication method includes receiving in an IoT gateway or another IoT sensor, a packet of data from a sensor over a wireless computer communications network, placing the packet of data into quarantine in memory of the IoT gateway and offloading authentication of the sensor to an authentication processor executing in a separate process address space in the IoT gateway. Thereafter, an authentication result is received from the authentication processor and, responsive to the authentication result indicating successfully authentication of the sensor, the packet is released from quarantine, a sensor value extracted from the packet of data and the sensor value transmitted to a sensor monitor. But, responsive to the authentication result indicating a failure to authenticate the sensor, the packet of data is discarded and removed from quarantine.

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Takis Katsoulakos