Arqit Demonstrates Industrial IoT Security
May 11 2022 - 9:07AM
Arqit Quantum Inc. (“Arqit”), a leader in quantum encryption
technology, and Blue Mesh Solutions Limited (“Blue Mesh”), a
UK-based sensors and IoT specialist, have successfully completed
and demonstrated a Quantum Secure “MQTT” (MQ Telemetry Transport)
service for Industrial IoT.
The project was funded by the UK Government’s
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) 5G Trials
and Testbeds programme.
The global market for Industrial Internet of
Things is potentially very large. However due to the limited
computing resources typically used in IoT sensors and the
proliferation in the number of endpoints, encryption is often
overlooked with 83% of all online IoT transactions being in plain
text according to the cloud security company Zscaler.
Arqit and Blue Mesh collaborated to integrate
Arqit’s QuantumCloud™ to secure sensor network equipment through a
security enhancement to an internationally standardised protocol
known as MQTT which is a ubiquitous method used for sending data
from Industrial IoT devices to cloud servers for data manipulation
and analysis.
Adding a security layer to the existing MQTT
standard increases the protection of IoT systems used in strategic
assets such as ports, petro-chemical industries and rail
networks.
Arqit Founder, Chairman and CEO
David Williams, said: “We are delighted to have
delivered this capability to enhance the security of Industrial
IoT. Our core product QuantumCloud™ delivers
stronger, simpler key agreement technology to counter the
threats that we read about every day, and it has built in
protection against the future threats from quantum attack. We
believe that QuantumCloud™ delivers a significant advantage to many
potential customers in strategic IoT networks by solving the
encryption problems of MQQT and guaranteeing privacy.”
Managing Director for Blue Mesh
Solutions, Richard Brooks said: “Having the opportunity to
work with Arqit’s QuantumCloud™ to build the world's most secure
over-the-air IoT Sensor Data Solution is hugely important for the
future of IoT, artificial intelligence, condition monitoring,
autonomous transport and any number of digital systems that require
the highest level of asset and data security. By increasing
IoT data security to a quantum secure level, we can help to protect
all power, chemical, transport and energy assets that need the
highest level of operational data security.”
About Arqit
Arqit supplies a unique quantum encryption
platform-as-a-service which makes the communications links of any
networked device secure against current and future forms of attack
– even from a quantum computer. Arqit’s product,
QuantumCloud™, enables any device to download a lightweight
software agent, which can create encryption keys in partnership
with any other device. The keys are computationally secure,
optionally one-time use and zero trust. QuantumCloud™ can
create limitless volumes of keys in limitless group sizes and can
regulate the secure entrance and exit of a device in a
group. The addressable market for QuantumCloud™ is every
connected device.
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About Blue Mesh Solutions (BMS)
BMS is a leading UK technology company providing
innovative IoT solutions to improve traditional ways of doing
things. They work closely with UK5G and the DCMS 5G Testbed
Programme.
Their mission is to help make sense of the data collected from
sensors via 5G networks and help their customers to turn an
experimental idea or system into tried and tested solutions.
The ongoing projects they are currently involved in,
include:
1. Smarter Parking - using bluetooth sensors -
and Google Maps so the parking space tells drivers when it is free.
2. AI powered Predictive Maintenance - using 5G and our own sensor
data network, helping make the long-term management of large assets
AI powered. 3. Making IoT data unbreakable - using
QuantumCloud for security and MQTT for the communications
layer.
They have technology collaborations with Nordic
Semiconductor, Wirepas, Cambridge University and Arqit, as well as
collaborations with Google, Wayra, Cambridge University, Centre for
Smart Infrastructure, Cambridge Science Park and
Three.
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enquiries:BMS:
richard@bluemeshsolutions.com
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