Multi-Tenant Management in Secured IoT Based Solutions

Abstract

The existence of Internet of Things (IoT) can be noticed in many different areas. There are lots of IoT implementations in different domains which facilitate existing workloads and solve many kinds of struggles within that specific domain. The excessive growth in IoT based solutions for both home and industry applications caused developers to pay great attention over the requirements such as reusability, modifiability, and interoperability with a robust security. Many IoT products should present a core feature which serves plenty of customers from different domains and provide domain-specific features for each of them. This approach also forces the IoT products to be multi-tenant supported to satisfy the requirements. Multi-tenancy brings more strict security considerations, organizational approaches, policies, roles, and identity managements. In this paper, we propose a solution for implementing multi-tenancy and tenant management in an IoT product, and drill down to details in order to disclose how to make that product modular and give the ability to serve unlimited number of vertical solutions.