Towards a holistic federation of secure crowd-enabled IoT facilities

Experimentally driven research is considered to be a key factor for growing the Internet industry. There is a large number of existing experimentation facilities which can be adapted to a seamless federation into a unified platform. Through this common federation, innovative experiments become possible and are able to break the boundaries of testbeds interoperability barriers. This way, infrastructure developers can utilize common tools of the federation, allowing them to not only focus on their core testbed functionalities, activities and services but also collaboratively combine them. In this work realized in the frame of the IoT Lab European research project, we provide a federation roadmap which paves the way towards a holistic integration of three testbeds, different both in terms of location and in terms of provided services and functionalities. The core element of each testbed is a set of networked constraint devices that can perform sensing and actuation tasks. This set is further enhanced with mobile user devices (smartphones), which can significantly improve the federation´s capabilities by introducing crowdsensing functionalities. This enhancement actively employs users and therefore inserts the human factor in the data collection and storage process. For this reason, we also ensure full compliance with personal data and privacy protection rules, by implementing an anonymity, privacy and security preserving platform, on top of which the users may share their data.