Study and investigation of Bluetooth Low Energy security in the IoT environment

Daniela Catanzaro

Study and investigation of Bluetooth Low Energy security in the IoT environment.

Rel. Mariagrazia Graziano. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica (Electronic Engineering), 2020

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Abstract

Bluetooth is one of the most popular and important wireless connection nowadays. Suffice it to say that, due to the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19 in 2020, the most useful italian application in order to do a good contact tracing (Immuni) is based on Bluetooth Low Energy technology. This is only an example of a global current issue to understand the significance of it. But Bluetooth standard is growing year by year with the growth of IoT systems used in daily life, such as smart locks, smart security systems, smart assistants, fitness trackers, and more. IoT environment has reached about 30 billion of devices in which Bluetooth (especially BLE) is one of the most radio protocol used.

For these reasons it’s easy to understand that the security level of this kind of standard technology is an important key requirement