The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises a large number of heterogeneous devices. It is forecasted that up to 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. All of them have to be configured. Due to the heterogeneity of devices and the enormous increasing number of devices, manual configuration becomes more and more complex and inefficient. Zero configuration is put forward to solve this problem, which makes device configured automatically without additional manual involvement. Besides that, there are many security threats we want to avoid in the future. These security problems include unauthenticated nodes accessing to IoT data, denial of service, lack of confidentiality, malicious attack from hackers and so on. This paper studies the characteristics of IoT firstly and then highlights the implementation of zero configuration and security to IoT. This paper describes the underlying features of zero configuration and primary requirements of security, as well as finds some related mature technologies, based on that proposes a concise solution – combining the Bonjour and many security approaches for implementation of a secure zero IoT system. In addition, this solution is implemented in a small environment scenario of IoT, a smart home. All the programs are in Java language. Evaluation and conclusion are done in final phase.

Autonomous Mesh Networks potentially allows for cheaper networks, of use for impoverished areas with poor infrastructure and little interest from service providers for expansion. The subject of wireless mesh networks is interesting for several reasons. Non-reliance, or at the very least reduced reliance on existing infrastructure and service providers gives more control of a network to the users and their communities. These kinds of networks are however conceived to be quite complex to set up, manage and maintain. The goal of this paper was to create an autonomous network without any need for infrastructure, that was relatively easy to configure, use, and performs well. The implementation technique used succeeds at reaching these goals. The script and environment that was constructed makes it easy to set up and join nodes into the network, and the network can increase and decrease in size without affecting the core functionality of the network. The implementation for automatic host discovery makes it simple for anyone with a small amount of knowledge to find and communicate with other hosts, and the network has proven to be resilient to some common ways of tampering.

Diploma thesis is about narrowband PLC communication standards. The theoretical part describes details of all available OFDM standards including G3-PLC, PRIME, IEEE-1901.2 and G.hnem. The practical part deals with PRIME and G3-PLC standards. In this part is also compared OFDM technology with system of single carrier frequency in environment with real interferences. The last part describes developement of two firmwares for PLC modems Texas Instruments TMDSPLCKIT-V3, which allow UART communication and remote data collection. The thesis also includes Windows application developed to display and save collected data.