MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR IoT-BASED ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM

In a rabbit breeding environment monitoring system designed based on the Internet of things (IoT) technology, a safety policy that can realise mutual authentication between client-side APP and IoT data acquisition as well as equipment control is required to ensure the safety of system equipment and message command. Due to the high requirement on the computing power and storage capacity of CPU used for information acquisition and equipment control under the IoT, traditional server/client authentication policy would affect the system development cost. Therefore, a mutual authentication policy was designed in this paper based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) with the aid of the system authorised support centre. The experiment proved that this policy could satisfy the requirement of mutual authentication raised by the breeding environment monitoring system under the IoT at a low system development cost.