A Participatory Verification Security Scheme for the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is becoming a critical subject nowadays and along with an increasing adoption of ubiquitous computing devices security becomes an issue which must be approached in different application contexts. One notion that gains traction along with the IoT (Internet of Things) paradigm is the social context of embedded devices. This paper proposes a participatory verification security solution where citizens use an Android application to verify the position of an IoT device when uploading a sensing report. The reputation of an IoT device is built using the verification feedback and the information delivered by the most trusted device in a certain category is published on a social network.