The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to provide new business opportunities by connectingdevices, persons, and their data. However, the value proposed by IoT cannot be realized withouttrust. As IoT premises on the seamless connections, it should guarantee trust among the connected persons andthings. However, there is lack of relevant discussion on how to achieve trustworthy connections and interactionsbecause most of academic studies have mainly focused on the development of IoT platforms and applications. Tofill the gaps, recent EU-funded projects such as uTRUSTit, ABC4Trust, Inter-Trust, COMPOSE, and SMARTIEhave been conducted under the FP7-ICT Framework Programme.
This paper presents and discusses each project’s purpose and approach. Although their approaches aresomewhat different from each other, all of them dedicate to achieving both privacy and security by providing thetrustworthy connections. It seems to be clear that Korea also needs more academic and practical contribution interms of researches, to implement“ trust”among connected things, which will eventually satisfy what really IoT isexpected for.