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Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Quantaflow

Participants : Petar Maksimovic [contact] , Luigi Liquori, Sebastien Thuriez [Quantaflow SRL] .

Figure 14. The Quantaflow Network
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Quantaflow designs, manufactures and markets hardware, services, and software for professional and autonomous counting and tracking of the flow of people, in the setting of centralized data-gathering, and all for the purposes of security or marketing.

Given the complementarity of their competences, the Parties have decided to form a collaboration in order to formalize a communication protocol that Quantaflow wishes to use with its new equipment.

The main objective of this undertaking was the development of a secure protocol for message exchange between all of the actors in the Quantaflow network see Fig reffig:quantaflow, and has incorporated the following topics:

  • Protocol design, in particular:

    • Analysis of use-case scenarios

    • Design of mechanisms for determining device presence in a network

    • Design of protocol messages

    • The flow of protocol messages

  • Protocol security, in particular:

    • Message encryption

    • Message authentication

  • Cryptography, in particular:

    • Symmetric and public-key cryptography

    • Key storage and management

while the specifics of the work involved are protected by a non-disclosure agreement. This study has been conducted under an NDA and it is released in [24] , [25] .