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Exploration of Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Secure, TLS-Based Industrial IoT Nodes

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Security is one of the biggest challenges, particularly in the Industrial IoT and in critical infrastructures. Complex cryptographic computations are in contrast to the low energy budget of the devices, especially when independence from the power grid is required, as it is the case with retrofitted sensor nodes. Energy harvesting offers a promising alternative but tightens the energy constraints of the application further.

In this work, we investigate how IoT edge devices can be powered by thermal energy harvesting and concurrently meet the stringent TLS-based security requirements. We analyze a thermoelectric generator system at its lowest power output region and evaluate different energy storage technologies in a representative IoT architecture. Our results show that temperature gradients as low as 1 K are sufficient to enable secure connections every 20 min in a representative IIoT application.

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This paper was partly founded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the project “SIKRIN-KRYPTOV” (16KIS1069).

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    Frederik Lauer, Maximilian Schöffel, Carl C. Rheinländer & Norbert Wehn

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Lauer, F., Schöffel, M., Rheinländer, C.C., Wehn, N. (2023). Exploration of Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Secure, TLS-Based Industrial IoT Nodes. In: Tekinerdogan, B., Wang, Y., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Internet of Things – ICIOT 2022. ICIOT 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13735. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23582-5_7

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