London, May 3, 2018: The MULTOS Consortium, a group of international blue chip organisations responsible for the promotion and development of the MULTOS specifications, announced today the launch of a new development kit for design companies, professionals, device manufacturers and software developers focused on securing embedded devices in the Internet of Things (IoT).
The MULTOS “Trust Anchor” secure embedded SDK promises to reduce the design effort for smart secure device projects requiring robust hardware root-of-trust protection, critical for many IoT solutions and businesses. Its flexibility allows a high-security micro-controller running the MULTOS operating system to be designed in as either the main micro-controller at the heart of a connected secure device, or as a supporting secure co-processor, said a press statement.
Key features of the MULTOS technology which can be leveraged for smart secure devices include protecting the device runtime, ensuring the identity of endpoints, securing critical data, simplifying the provisioning process, with enhanced flexibility and life cycle management, all while supporting low power modes of operation.
The kit contains two MULTOS ML5 chips (microcontrollers preloaded with the MULTOS OS). The kit is available for purchase from Universal Smart Cards (www.usmartcards.co.uk/iot.html), a MULTOS Consortium Partner member within the MULTOS community.
Paul Wilson, Commercial Manager of the MULTOS Consortium said, “MULTOS has now been incorporated within a number of connected devices, some of which are used in ‘live’ products today. This easy to use and feature rich development kit will allow more developers, design companies, and manufacturers to easily leverage the great benefits MULTOS has to offer, thus protecting their devices, data, reputations and business longevity”.
MULTOS is a robust, industry-backed high security smart card platform, delivering simplicity and innovation to the world’s leading card and e-passport issuers. With a figure in excess of 1 billion issued smart cards and smart devices across more than 50 countries, thousands of issuers, including national governments, banks, corporate enterprises and transit authorities have taken advantage of the high security, multi-application platform for their deployment programmes.