Tuesday, April 30, 2019

IoT as an Alternative to VPN for Secure Remote Device Access

Embedding web servers have traditionally been used as an easy solution for managing equipment by using any standard browser. Unless a tunnel such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) is used, managing the equipment is limited to the local Intranet where the equipment is installed. However, setting up and operating a VPN solution is challenging, technical, and costly if IT personnel are needed for the VPN setup and maintenance.

A configuration-less alternative to VPN is to use a type of IoT solution known as IoT bridge mode. A device can act both as a web server for local use and as an IoT edge node for remote use. The following figure depicts such a setup.



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