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This is a comparison of all available Internet of Things platforms. The following criteria are used for comparison. For more details on the criteria and their values see below.

Support of heterogeneous devices

This criteria describes if the platform supports different types of devices and possible restrictions upon this support.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Yes
  • No
  • Embedded devices
  • Ethernet enabled
  • Home devices
  • Needs gateway
  • RFID
  • Robots

Type

This criteria describes the type of the platform.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Client/Server
  • Hub
  • M2M
  • Mesh
  • OS
  • P2P
  • PaaS
  • Robots
  • SaaS
  • Server

Architecture

This criteria describes the architecture of the platform.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Cloud-based
  • Centralized
  • Decentralized
  • Distributed

Open source

This criteria describes whether a platform is open source or not and under which licence it is available.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Yes
  • No
  • Affero GNU Public License
  • Apache 2.0
  • Client open source
  • Gateway firmware open source
  • LGPLv3
  • Libraries only
  • M.I.T

REST API

This criteria describes if the platform offers a REST API.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Yes
  • No
  • CoAP
  • n.a.

Data access control

This criteria describes if and how the platform handles data access control.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Yes
  • No
  • 2 levels
  • 3 levels
  • 4 levels
  • Facebook like privacy settings
  • Fine-grained
  • Locally stored
  • n.a.
  • No storage
  • OAuth2
  • Role-based
  • Secured access
  • User-based privileges
  • User's choice
  • XACML

Service discovery

This criteria describes if the platform offers service discovery.[@MINERAUD20165]

  • Yes
  • No
  • Limited
  • n.a.

Integrity and Confidentiality

This criteria describes whether the platform has implemented measures to ensure integrity and confidentiality of its data.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Consent

This criteria describes if the platform uses user-directed security controls.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Policy-based access control

This criteria describes if the platform uses a policy-based security model.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Authentication

This criteria describes whether or not the platform has an authentication mechanism.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Federated Identity

This criteria describes if the platform uses federated models of identity for authentication.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Secure Device Identity

This criteria describes if the platform uses secure device identities.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Anonymous Identities

This criteria describes if the platform uses anonymous identities.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Attestation

This criteria describes if the platform uses attestation to ensure integrity and confidentiality.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Summarisation and Filtering

This criteria describes if the platform uses summarisation and filtering to prevent de-anonymisation.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Context-based security and Reputation

This criteria describes if the platform uses a context and reputation based security system to ensure privacy.[@Fremantle2017]

  • Yes
  • No

Protocol Support

This criteria lists the support protocols with focus on IoT.[@Fremantle2017] It is based on 2, but is extended with a specific list of the protocols

  • MQTT
  • AMQP
  • CoAP
  • Others
  • No