Blockchain Based Internet Of Things

Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial internet of things is an emerging field of research at the intersection of information science, computer science, and electronics engineering. The radical digitization of industry coupled with the explosion of the internet of things (IoT) has set up a paradigm shift for industrial and manufacturing companies. There exists a need for a comprehensive collection of original research of the best performing methods and state-of-the-art approaches in this area of blockchain, AI, and the industrial internet of things in this new era for industrial and manufacturing companies. Blockchain and AI Technology in the Industrial Internet of Things compares different approaches to the industrial internet of things and explores the direct impact blockchain and AI technology have on the betterment of the human life. The chapters provide the latest advances in the field and provide insights and concerns on the concept and growth of the industrial internet of things. While including research on security and privacy, supply chain management systems, performance analysis, and a variety of industries, this book is ideal for professionals, researchers, managers, technologists, security analysts, executives, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students looking for advanced research and information on the newest technologies, advances, and approaches for blockchain and AI in the industrial internet of things.

The book is aimed to foster knowledge based on Blockchain technology highlighting on the framework basics, operating principles and different incarnations. The fundamental problems encountered in existing blockchain architectures and means for removing those would be covered. It would also touch upon blockchain based IoT systems and applications. The book covers applications and use cases of blockchain technology for industrial IoT systems. In addition, methods for inducing computational intelligence into existing blockchain frameworks thereby thwarting most of the limitations are also discussed. The readers would benefit from the rich technical content in this rapidly emerging field thereby enabling a skilled workforce for the future.

This book presents an overview of the blockchain-based Internet of Things systems, along with the opportunities, challenges, and solutions in diverse fields such as business, education, agriculture, and healthcare. It discusses scalability, security, layers, threats, and countermeasures in blockchain-based Internet of Things network. Elaborates on the opportunities presented by combining blockchain with artificial intelligence on the Internet of Things systems in the management of food systems, and drug supply chains Explains the management of computationally intensive tasks in blockchain-based Internet of Things through the development of lightweight protocols Presents various applications in fields including logistics and the supply chain, automobile industry, smart housing, shared economy, and agriculture Provides insights into blockchain-based Internet of Things systems, along with their features, vulnerabilities, and architectural flaws The text is primarily written for graduate students, and academic researchers working in the fields of computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, and information technology

This book explores recent advances in the Internet of things (IoT) via advanced technologies and provides an overview of most aspects which are relevant for advance secure, distributed, decentralized blockchain technology in the Internet of things, their applications, and industry IoT. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the step-by-step evolution of IoT to create a change by enhancing the productivity of industries. It introduces how connected things, data, and their communication (data sharing) environment build a transparent, reliable, secure environment for people, processes, systems, and services with the help of blockchain technology.

This new volume explores a plethora of blockchain-based solutions for big data and IoT applications, looking at advances in real-world applications in several sectors, including higher education, cybersecurity, agriculture, business and management, healthcare and biomedical science, construction and project management, smart city development, and others. Chapters explore emerging technology to combat the ever-increasing threat of security to computer systems and offer new architectural solutions for problems encountered in data management and security. The chapters help to provide a high level of understanding of various blockchain algorithms along with the necessary tools and techniques. The novel architectural solutions in the deployment of blockchain presented here are the core of the book.

Blockchain, Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence provides an integrated overview and technical description of the fundamental concepts of blockchain, IoT, and AI technologies. State-of-the-art techniques are explored in depth to discuss the challenges in each domain. The convergence of these revolutionized technologies has leveraged several areas that receive attention from academicians and industry professionals, which in turn promotes the book's accessibility more extensively. Discussions about an integrated perspective on the influence of blockchain, IoT, and AI for smart cities, healthcare, and other business sectors illuminate the benefits and opportunities in the ecosystems worldwide. The contributors have focused on real-world examples and applications and highlighted the significance of the strengths of blockchain to transform the readers’ thinking toward finding potential solutions. The faster maturity and stability of blockchain is the key differentiator in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. This book discusses their potent combination in realizing intelligent systems, services, and environments. The contributors present their technical evaluations and comparisons with existing technologies. Theoretical explanations and experimental case studies related to real-time scenarios are also discussed. FEATURES Discusses the potential of blockchain to significantly increase data while boosting accuracy and integrity in IoT-generated data and AI-processed information Elucidates definitions, concepts, theories, and assumptions involved in smart contracts and distributed ledgers related to IoT systems and AI approaches Offers real-world uses of blockchain technologies in different IoT systems and further studies its influence in supply chains and logistics, the automotive industry, smart homes, the pharmaceutical industry, agriculture, and other areas Presents readers with ways of employing blockchain in IoT and AI, helping them to understand what they can and cannot do with blockchain Provides readers with an awareness of how industry can avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional data-sharing strategies This book is suitable for graduates, academics, researchers, IT professionals, and industry experts.

This book focuses on picturing B-IoT techniques from a few perspectives, which are architecture, key technologies, security and privacy, service models and framework, practical use cases and more. Main contents of this book derive from most updated technical achievements or breakthroughs in the field. A number of representative IoT service offerings will be covered by this book, such as vehicular networks, document sharing system, and telehealth. Both theoretical and practical contents will be involved in this book in order to assist readers to have a comprehensive and deep understanding the mechanism of using blockchain for powering up IoT systems. The blockchain-enabled Internet of Things (B-IoT) is deemed to be a novel technical alternative that provides network-based services with additional functionalities, benefits, and implementations in terms of decentralization, immutability, and auditability. Towards the enhanced secure and privacy-preserving Internet of Things (IoT), this book introduces a few significant aspects of B-IoT, which includes fundamental knowledge of both blockchain and IoT, state-of-the-art reviews of B-IoT applications, crucial components in the B-IoT system and the model design, and future development potentials and trends. IoT technologies and services, e.g. cloud data storage technologies and vehicular services, play important roles in wireless technology developments. On the other side, blockchain technologies are being adopted in a variety of academic societies and professional realms due to its promising characteristics. It is observable that the research and development on integrating these two technologies will provide critical thinking and solid references for contemporary and future network-relevant solutions. This book targets researchers and advanced level students in computer science, who are focused on cryptography, cloud computing and internet of things, as well as electrical engineering students and researchers focused on vehicular networks and more. Professionals working in these fields will also find this book to be a valuable resource.