Identity management framework for cloud based internet of things

Internet of Things is emerging as next generation technology with a vision of a connected world where everything is connected whether it is a person, a thing or a device. The connected things are able to exchange data including their identities, physical properties and information gathered from the environment. Hence they actively participate in decision making. The identification technologies like RFID have empowered the concept of Internet of Things by enabling the unique identification of things. The cloud computing technology has made the tasks of processing huge amount of data produced by the devices easier. But in order to make the system scalable, it must be able to handle the devices that are growing day by day. Hence there is a need of proper identity management. This paper discusses requirement of identity management and then presents a framework for identity management for Cloud based Internet of Things.