BlockOTA

OTA Firmware updates for commercial IoT devices over Ethereum blockchain platform and Inter Planetary File-System.

Introduction

With steady growth in the number of commercial IoT devices being sold worldwide, they are easily made targets for attacks intended to break into the private information of its users. With more data such as personal preferences, incoming/outgoing data log and direct control of appliances, safety and security of these devices are of paramount importance.

Presenting BlockOTA, an Ethereum based smart dapp which manages the OTA firmware updates of an IoT device. The smart contract stores hash values along with IPFS integration to save firmwares into decentralized storage solutions.

Requirements

Design Pattern Choices - Link
Avoiding Common Attacks - Link
Deployed Address - 0x604b0de21f2e2f8628dc4f55e87f329094cdfcdf (ropsten)
ETHPM Implementation - May not be possible for given implementation

Setup and Test Procedure

Install dependancies

1. Clone repo to machine using git clone https://github.com/paltrickontpb/BlockOTA

2. Install global modules which are required

npm i nodemon -g  
npm i ganache-cli -g  
npm i truffle -g

3. Install all required modules npm i .

Running the Project

1. Run Ganache instance on a terminal ganache-cli

2. Compile, migrate and test the contract (in given sequence)

truffle compile  
truffle migrate  
truffle test

3. Serve the front-end npm run-script run

You will be greeted by the project page hosted on localhost:3000/