SAFE: Secure and Usable IoT Ecosystem

The SAFE project researched and developed techniques and algorithms suitable to secure healthcare systems using Internet of Things and wearable devices. This system is protected from cyber threats via end-to-end encryption technology and blockchain-based data structures. The system also provides privacy guarantees via fine-grained access control.

This was a collaborative research project funded by the British Council's UK-India Education Research Initiative, between the Institute for Digital Technologies of Loughborough University London and IIT Kharagpur (India), and was supported by the City University of London, eSmart Saving Ltd (UK), and India Institute of Medical Sciences.

This was a three-year research project, successfully completed in September 2020.

Notable publications:

S. Misra, A. Mukherjee, A. Roy, N. Saurabh, Y. Rahulamathavan, and M. Rajarajan, "Blockchain at the edge: performance of resource-constrained IoT networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 32(1), pp.174-183, 2020.

S. Tahir and M. Rajarajan, "Privacy-Preserving Searchable Encryption Framework for Permissioned Blockchain Networks", IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2018), Halifax, Canada.

Y. Rahulamathavan, R. C. Phan, M. Rajarajan, S. Misra, and A. Kondoz, "Privacy-preserving blockchain based IoT ecosystem using attribute-based encryption," IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2017 Bhubaneswar, India.

A. Mukherjee, S. Misra, P. Mangrulkar, M. Rajarajan, and Y. Rahulamathavan, "SmartARM: A Smartphone-based Group Activity Recognition and Monitoring Scheme for Military Applications", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2017 Bhubaneswar, India.

A. Roy, C. Roy, S. Misra, Y. Rahulamathavan, and M. Rajarajan, "CARE: Criticality-Aware Data Transmission in CPS-Based Healthcare Systems", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2018 Kansas City, MO, USA.