Advancing Secure & Safe IoT and Edge Computing Platforms: Lessons from LoLiPoP IoT and SuzECK projects

Dr. George Violettas. 

Thursday June 26th, 2025, at 14:00.

Abstract. The next generation of IoT and edge computing platforms must address security, safety, and reliability requirements. This talk presents the advancements made in two European-funded projects, LoLiPoP IoT and SuzECK, that concentrate on safe, interference-free gateway architectures and a robust, self-managed platform for critical edge applications.

In LoLiPoP IoT, a modular gateway integrates Mioty and BLE-based applications, ensuring isolation, real-time security key provisioning via HSM over an NXP S32G3 System on Chip (SOC), and a PikeOS-based execution environment enhanced by Grafana visualization, firewalling, and intrusion detection/prevention mechanisms.

SuzECK enhances this strategy by creating a secure computing platform powered by Kubernetes, in which nodes are dynamically managed as compute units. For safety-critical edge services, fault-tolerant execution is ensured by hardware-level failover, redundant application copies, and an intelligent voting mechanism.

This keynote will explore the architectural challenges, security designs, deployment strategies, and future research perspectives in secure IoT and edge computing. It will also provide insights into leveraging containerization, modular security frameworks, and self-healing node orchestration for next-generation digital infrastructures.