Secure & Zero Touch Device Onboarding

As the scale of IoT deployments increase so do the operational challenges associated with physically installing and configuring large numbers of devices in real-world environments. Typical IoT device installation processes have significant manual aspects which drive costs and negatively impact on speed of deployment and security. Here we present the results of a study and prototyping activity which examined the potential for cutting-edge technologies and protocols to automate the onboarding of IoT devices to IoT platforms. This is increasingly being termed secure and zero touch device onboarding within the industry.