Some of the project highlights are:
C4IIoT platform. The specification of C4IIoT architecture as a fully integrated strategic approach that bridge many different technologies and concepts, including hardware-enabled security and protection, access control and authentication mechanisms, end-to-end encryption, and behavioral analytical models. These mechanisms enable many different properties, such as accountability, privacy-preserving, reliability and trustworthiness.
Platform integration and use cases demonstrations. The project successfully delivered the Minimum Viable Product (M12) and the first integrated version of the platform (M18), which include different modes of operations within the two real-world scenarios, namely “Smart Factory” and “Inbound Logistics”.
Raise awareness. Several different dissemination activities have been made, including the 1st C4IIoT INFODAY webinar, the 1st C4IIoT Winter School and the participation with a panel in the CONCORDIA Open Door 2020 event.
Work highlights per WP:
WP1: A thorough review process of the requirements carried out in conjunction with the external advisory board that subsequently validated the requirements submitted.
WP2: Different technologies have been developed in the framework of the C4IIoT project. In this WP, edge nodes for both Logistics4.0 and Smart Factory use cases with hardware security were developed. Machine learning algorithms operating at the edge node level have been designed and developed in combination with other tools in upper levels of the architecture. Dynamic offloading decision mechanism has been developed, specifically the MEDICI tool.
WP3: The components related to the cloud environment of the C4IIoT framework have been enhanced and implemented in a trial environment. Focus was on hybrid cloud orchestration, network traffic analysis, behavioural analysis, anomaly detection, attack mitigation, and data flow security.
WP4: The work carried out within this period ensured the integration of the C4IIoT technologies and its relevant security-enabled layers; based on an agile approach. All necessary resources for the implementation and integration were deployed and managed, as well as their corresponding modules. The good practices and lessons learned for setting up C4IIoT have been consolidated into a single report so as to serve as a reference point to promote security in Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT.
WP5: The work carried out led to the successful realization of the demonstrators, both for the Smart Factory and the Logistics 4.0 scenarios along with the C4IIoT solution evaluation process.
WP6: The work carried out led to providing the activities and plan for dissemination, communication, standardization and exploitation activities, and updates of the market analysis related to the C4IIoT framework
WP7: The goal of WP7 is to set up and maintain the administrative, financial, and management infrastructure of the C4IIoT project and to describe a plan for the data that will be used in this project.
