The SOFIE Project
SOFIE facilitates the smooth creation of new IoT business platforms through secure open federation - powered by the SOFIE architecture, software framework, and reference implementation.
SOFIE project is based on four pillars
I Federation
Instead of integration, we have chosen federation as SOFIE’s approach. This means that each siloed IoT platform remains internally intact.II Openness
From the business point of view, anyone can join an open system, as there are no gatekeepers or organisational architectural barriers. At the technical level, virtually any IoT platform can be joined to the federation, provided that it has some open interfaces, often even without support of the technology vendor.
III Security
We exercise security by design. We build the necessary new security and privacy features to offer better protection against cyber-attacks through the unforgeable DLTs establishing transparency and accountability, and give users better control of their data.
IV Data sovereignty
Data is shared in a controlled way, within the bounds of security and privacy policies defined by the owner of the data. While strongly coupled with security, this aspect has characteristics which go well beyond traditional information security.
Learn more about SOFIE through these selected presentations:
- SOFIE, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralized Identifiers, COMNET Research Workshop.
- SOFIE - Secure Open Federation for Internet Everywhere (ppt. presentation), SOFIE Workshop at Decentralized 2019.
- Inter-ledgers for IoT data markets, IoT Week 2019.
- Workshop "Interledger Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems Federation with Security, Privacy, and Flexibility. - Practical applications to the Energy sector, the Food-Supply Chain, and Context-Aware IoT gaming", Decentralized 2019
- Webinar "The Interoperability between IoT Platforms: the SOFIE Framework SOFIE" , NGIoT webinar 2020
- Workshop "Decentralized operation and security in the IoT Space”, in cooperation with cyberwatching.eu, June 2020.
- Workshop "OAuth 2.0 meets verifiable credentials and blockchain-based tokens", OAuth Security Workshop 2020.