Cyber Physical IoT Device Management Using a Lightweight Agent

Increasingly IoT-enabled infrastructure such as smart cities, energy delivery systems, communication networks, manufacturing plants and transportation systems are unable to manage devices with various makes, models, configurations and applications. Considering the fragility of these industrial IoT devices and their cyber-physical nature, it is important not to impede on their limited memory and processing power. Existing solutions for IoT device management such as IoT platforms and hardware solutions have considerable downsides. We propose an agent-based mechanism to control and manage diverse IoT devices that has limited impact on device operations. Our agent is tested in the context of delivering security updates to IoT devices and demonstrates the efficiency of the agent-based management architecture.