SSI 4.0 - Izertis

Digital Identity

Sovereign Data and Data Sovereignty in Industry 4.0

The main objective of the project is the research and experimental development of technologies in order to achieve a new sphere of digitalisation, optimisation, and improvement of the industry, focusing on the creation of trust relationships among the different actors and systems within the industrial ecosystem, as well as on the management of the sovereignty, integrity, and confidentiality of the information exchanged by them (credentials, designs, production data, etc.). In order to achieve this objective, the project aims to develop a platform for the management of sovereign identities and data governance in the context of Industry 4.0.

The main objective of the project is the research and experimental development of technologies in order to achieve a new sphere of digitalisation, optimisation, and improvement of the industry.

Challenges

To transfer the advantages of the new digital model of Self-Sovereign Identity from the IT world to the industrial sector (the OT domain).

To design and propose a novel model of credentials that universally enables a resource or product to demonstrate its characteristics, qualifications and certifications to third parties (other systems, production resources or even components).

To investigate cryptographic and mathematical algorithms which, in combination with blockchain technology, allow a technical and mathematical guarantee that, in data-based services or their exploitation (predictive maintenance, prediction of energy consumption, etc.), both the industry's data and the algorithms used by a third party to provide such services can be protected.

Solution

Definition, validation and experimentation of a technological platform based on SSI and blockchain technology that: reliably verifies, by third parties, the claims made regarding compliance with requirements in industrial products and resources; serves as a trusted third party for the governance of data shared among different entities in Industry 4.0; and guarantees the immutability, reliability, traceability, and transparency of information use within the community of entities.