The document discusses creating secured value chains for smart industries. It identifies key obstacles to extensive data sharing between companies such as losing control over data and inconsistent systems. It proposes countermeasures like exploiting FIWARE standards, implementing secure data spaces with data traceability and usage control, and using blockchains and marketplaces. NEC's FogFlow is presented as a way to orchestrate data analytics based on privacy policies by dispatching analytic tasks to isolated worker containers based on location, resources, and data policies. A federated approach is described for multiple stakeholders in smart industries. Finally, a blockchain-based data marketplace is proposed for sharing AI models between industry participants.

1. Creating Secured Value Chains
for Smart Industries
6th FIWARE Summit, Genua, Italy
2019/05/21
Ernö Kovacs / Flavio Cirillo
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH.
IoT Platform Research

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Industrial IoT:
Obstacles concerning extensive sharing of data
[1] Data exchange as a first step towards data economy – a PWC study
https://www.internationaldataspaces.org/en/publications/data-exchange-as-a-first-step-towards-data-economy-a-pwc-study-2/
57%
worry about revealing
valuable data and
business secrets.
59%
fear the loss of
control over their
data.
55%
feel inconsistent
processes and
systems as a (very)
big obstacle.
32%
fear that sharing
ecosystem do not
reach the critical
mass, so that data
exchange will be
interesting.
Issues
preventing data
sharing
between
companies [1]
Counter
measures
Communities
Exploiting FIWARE
ecosystem, standards
and data models
Secure Data Spaces:
Orchestrate data
analytics based on
privacy policies
Data Sovereignty:
Data traceability,
Data provenance,
Data usage control
Blockchain
Marketplace and Next
Generation Context
Management:
Standardized Business
API (TM- Forum),
IoT Data and services
marketplace,
Smart Contracts,
Shared data knowledge
graph
Marketplace

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Smart Cities and Secure Data Spaces: Technology Trend
▌2019 will see the launch of 5G
l The connection of every device will become cheap
l Big amount of data generated
▌Data analytics are more and more packaged
into containers to be run on edge devices:
l Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
l Siemens Industrial Edge
l General Electrics Predix Edge
l AWS Greengrass
l NEC FIWARE FogFlow
l …
▌Usage control systems are moving from
merely legal enforcement to technical
enforcements
l IDSA (International Data Spaces Associations)
Data Usage Policies.
IDSA Categories:

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FogFlow capabilities
▌An operator (i.e. task for FogFlow) communicates only to
FogFlow, all other channels are blocked
à Basis for a full control over the processed data…
Operator
FogFlow

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Federated AI with FogFlow GE

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Analytic
Task
Data Analytics Topology
Analytic
Task
Analytic
Task
Secure Data Spaces: Multiple Smart Industry stakeholders
worker
New aggregation task
instantiated by the
system
▌ FogFlow is the shared framework
(through federation) for data
analytics
▌ Tasks are dispatched to workers
taking into account:
l Geo location
l Resource availability
l Privacy Concerns
l Data usage and Data access
policies
▌ Data is handled only by the
FogFlow system:
l Analytics tasks have access to data
only from the Federated FogFlow
system
▌ Analytics tasks can be added at
runtime for enforcing policies
broker
Logistic
operator
worker
broker
Engineering B
worker
broker
Factory A
▌ Containers
l Can be docker or trust|me. The
latter more secure and it is
available a converter to
transform docker container to
trust|me container.
▌ Tasks isolation
l Tasks run into isolated service container
l Service Containers cannot interact directly with each
other
l Service container do not have direct access to Internet
l All the messages pass through the container
environment

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Data Marketplace based on Blockchain / Data Spaces
Identities and Policies Blockchain
Context Discovery Blockchain

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Workbench NWorkbench A
Marketplace
for AI Models
Defect Product
Detection
Local AI model creation
(labelling, training,
and learning at edges)
Sharing of AI models
for defect goods
Local AI model
federation and
usage
……