Securing IIoT sensors communication using blockchain technology

Abstract

Industrial IoT (IIoT) advances organisations to the next level by tracing and managing all entity activities. Moreover, the deployment, dependency, and interaction of these wireless devices, often known as IoT (Internet of Things) devices, creates a number of privacy and security problems. The usage of sensors in industries helps and decreases man power while increasing quality and lowering production costs. Several attacks might be encountered by different attackers by hacking various sensors activities. In this research, a secure wireless scheme based on Blockchain technology which saves the extracted collections of all data into a number of blocks to preserve transparency and secure all the activities of smart sensors is proposed. Furthermore, the proposed blockchain mechanism's simulation results are tested against different security transmission processes. Furthermore, the obtained results are scrutinised and analyzed over certain metrics like ease of attack detection, probability of attack success and falsification attack to assess the authenticity of IoT devices.