Minor rant on link, IoT and Pi you can stop here is you like.
I don’t get the uniqueness here, you can put a full Linux distro on a Pi and do quite a lot, we certainly do.
We prototyped one some time ago doing physical access control based on UMA. Works very nicely actually. Access control server is the AS (could be a Pi), door controller is the RS (also a Linux distro but usually an ARM could be a Pi, but most mfgrs have to go through UL and other things so typically build their own or get and OEM modules such as http://www.mercury-security.com/ <- when it is up… ), enterprise is RO, client is person getting in the door with tokens on either smart card or smart phone. Need a few other sensors connected to the RS to make it work and typically a network connection between AS and RS but not necessarily as the UMA use case can support distributed authorization, that’s the cool thing.
Not trying to promote anything but just as an example of what we actually use Pi’s for (an appropriate discussion for 0311416) in terms of an initial offering it is focused at technical automation for IoT, our plans for UMA follow on from there. In case anyone is interested short description is we connect the Linux distro (in some cases a Pi) to real world physical security systems and provide quite a lot of information about the devices in much the same way that modern IT scanning tools do, the difference is that we provide a UI that can be used by an electrician at the push of a button and we have worked with manufacturers to make sure that their implementations actually adopt IT standards so the monitoring of the devices is efficient and fruitful. Its one of the tricky things with IoT to get standards properly implemented let alone securely. Managing the lifecycle of these devices and making sure they get installed properly is the value proposition. There is new story every day, e.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/14/cctv_insecurity_rife/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=linkedin <- and fwiw we could do this exploit every day and have been showing it to vendors as part of our security practice for almost 10 years…
And don’t worry, there’s nothing on our web site (it’s ancient, not really about this, though it will shortly be upgraded) certainly nothing you could click that would track you.. ;-)
Cheers,
Sal
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UMA on Raspberry Pi? Cool idea, but trying to sign up for this leads to data tracking hell. Can’t ‘register’ even though whitelisted in Ghostery and turn off uBlock origin. Who knows what kinda crap is going on in the backend. But if you’re curious, consider yourself warned:
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