Intermittent Power, Continuous Protection: Security and Privacy for Batteryless Devices in IoT

Batteryless devices are gaining widespread adoption as they eliminate batteries through energy harvesting. This not only reduces electronic waste but also facilitates sensing and monitoring in physically inaccessible or challenging environments, such as implantable devices, smart agriculture, and forests. Thus, batteryless devices are increasingly being integrated into Internet of Things (IoT) environments, such as smart homes, healthcare, and agricultural systems, as well as cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as industrial plants and wearable technologies. In these contexts, batteryless devices often handle privacy-sensitive information and must interact seamlessly and securely with both other batteryless devices and traditional battery-powered devices to share data and perform tasks.