Technical report on data protection and privacy in smart ICT: Internet of Things: Gap analysis between scientific research and technical standardisation: Gap analysis Internet of Things

With the emergence of new digital trends like the Internet of Things (IoT), more industry actors
and technical committees pursue research in utilizing such technologies as they promise better
and optimized management, improved energy efficiency and better quality living by facilitating a
magnitude of value-added services. However, as communication, sensing and actuation become
increasingly sophisticated, such promising data-driven IoT systems generate, process, and
exchange larger amounts of data, some of which is privacy-sensitive and security-critical. The
sustained increase in number of connected devices, catalyzed by IoT, affirms the importance of
addressing data protection, privacy and security challenges, as indices of trust, to achieve market
acceptance. This consequently, emphasizes the need of a solid technical and regulatory
foundation to ensure trustworthiness within the IoT ecosystem. The goal of this study is to first
introduce the concept of trustworthiness in IoT with its main pillars, data protection, privacy and
security, and then analyze developments in research and standardization for each of these. The
study presents a gap analysis on data protection, privacy and security between research and
standardization, throughout which the use case of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is referred
to, as a promising value-added service example of mobile IoT devices. The study concludes with
suggestions for future research and standardization in order to address the identified gaps.