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IoT Smart Home Secured with TEE Wins First GlobalPlatform Hackathon
October 2016 by Marc Jacob
SafeHaven, a system that enables granular control of every IoT
device in a smart home has won the inaugural GlobalPlatform Trusted Execution
Environment (TEE) hackathon. Without prior experience of
using the technology, developers Subhash Gutti and Harish Gowda, created a
functioning gateway system during the hackathon which remotely, instantly and
securely denies or grants access to IoT devices using the TEE.
Alongside sponsors Samsung and Sequitur Labs, GlobalPlatform - a cross-industry body
that defines and develops specifications for secure chip technology - challenged
programmers, idea generators and designers to create trusted applications that make
use of the latest TEE security technology.
The winning solution SafeHaven, a secure multi-user solution for IoT devices,
impressed judges as it had two trusted applications (one securing the user
credentials and one controlling user access in a TEE) as well as two mobile
applications (one performing administration and one performing user functionality).
Rolling IDs, a start-up focusing on producing small wearable asset trackers, was
named runner up, as it successfully demonstrated how TEE technology can host an
algorithm that ensures privacy-by-design tracking mechanism. The second runner up,
TuffPass, was a TEE-based consumer object which was designed to create, store and
retrieve strong passwords.
GlobalPlatform would like to extend its thanks to the mentors and judges that
participated in the hackathon: Mike Hendrick, VP of Product Development, Sequitur
Labs; Heekwan Lee, Principle Security Engineer, Samsung; Isaac de la Pena, Chief
Technology Officer, Agora EAFI; Rob Dyke, FAE Manager, Trustonic; Nicolas Lavabre,
Senior Consultant, Smart Consulting; and Lubna Dajani, Futurist and Chief Strategic
Officer, Intercede.
