IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION OF MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS

Systems, methods, and devices for identifying and authenticating devices include a plurality of controllers and an embedded device. A first controller may grant or deny access of other controllers to the embedded device without a centralized intermediary such as a remote network resource. In this manner, different device control privileges may be set for different devices in the absence of a constant network connection among the devices or between the collection of devices and a network-connected resource such as an authentication server.