Challenges of Securing Low-Power LoRaWAN Devices Deployed in Advanced Manufacturing

Compared to traditional manufacturing, advanced manufacturing is expected to support more innovative, reliable, and affordable manufacturing. Cutting-edge technologies, such as Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN), have been adopted in advanced manufacturing to enable the increasing demand for cost-effective automation, remote monitoring and control, and long-duration maintenance. However, the utilization of LoRaWAN will bring in new and unexplored security threats to the manufacturing pipeline. This work demonstrates three physical attacks (hardware Trojan, jamming, and replay attacks) executed in the LoRa nodes and analyzes the challenges of detecting and mitigating those attacks.