Data Component Method Based on Dual-Factor Ownership Identification with Multimodal Feature Fusion
In the booming digital economy, data circulation-particularly for massive multimodal data generated by IoT sensor networks-faces critical challenges: ambiguous ownership and broken cross-domain traceability. Traditional property rights theory, ill-suited to data's non-rivalrous nature, leads to ownership fuzziness after multi-source fusion and traceability gaps in cross-organizational flows, hindering marketization. This study aims to establish native ownership confirmation capabilities in trusted IoT-driven data ecosystems. The approach involves a dual-factor system: the collaborative extraction of text (from sensor-generated inspection reports), numerical (from industrial sensor measurements), visual (from 3D scanning sensors), and spatio-temporal features (from GPS and IoT device logs) generates unique SHA-256 fingerprints (first factor), while RSA/ECDSA private key signatures (linked to sensor node identities) bind ownership (second factor). An intermediate state integrates these with metadata, supported by blockchain (consortium chain + IPFS) and cross-domain protocols optimized for IoT environments to ensure full-link traceability. This scheme, tailored to the characteristics of IoT sensor networks, breaks traditional ownership confirmation bottlenecks in multi-source fusion, demonstrating strong performance in ownership recognition, anti-tampering robustness, cross-domain traceability and encryption performance. It offers technical and theoretical support for standardized data components and the marketization of data elements within IoT ecosystems.
Authors
- Mingxin Lu
- Xiaoyang Zhou
- Shinan Nie
- Jin Shi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1621-6944)
Institutions
- China Mobile (China) (CN)
- Suzhou Vocational Institute of Industrial Technology (CN)
- Suzhou Research Institute (CN)
- Nanjing University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sensors
- Published
- 2025-10-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s25216632
- Primary Topic
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00