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Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain

By : Santos, Enio Moura

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Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain

By: Santos, Enio Moura

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Overview of this book

Blockchain has been the hot topic of late thanks to cryptocurrencies. To make matters more interesting, the financial market is looking for ways to reduce operational costs and generate new business models, and this is where blockchain solutions come into the picture. In addition to this, with Internet of Things (IoT) trending and Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other devices flooding the market, you can now create cheap devices even at home. Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain starts with an overview of IoT concepts in the current business scenario. It then helps you develop your own device on the IBM Watson IoT platform and create your fi rst IoT solution using Watson and Intel Edison.Once you are familiar with IoT, you will learn about Blockchain technology and its use cases. You will also work with the Hyperledger framework and develop your own Blockchain network. As you progress through the chapters, you'll work with problem statements and learn how to design your solution architecture so that you can create your own integrated Blockchain and IoT solution. The next set of chapters will explain how to implement end-to-end Blockchain solutions with IoT using the IBM Cloud platform. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the convergence of IoT and Blockchain technology and exploited the best practices and drivers to develop a bulletproof integrated solution.

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Understanding IoT and Developing Devices on the IBM Watson IoT Platform

What is IoT?

Common business use cases of IoT

Technical elements in IoT

IBM Watson IoT Platform features

Creating your first IoT solution

Summary

Further reading

Creating Your First IoT Solution

Technical requirements

The first IoT solution – the gardening solution

Coding the device firmware

Creating the backend application

Summary

Further reading

Explaining Blockchain Technology and Working with Hyperledger

What is blockchain?

Blockchain and Hyperledger

Selecting a good use case

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Creating Your Own Blockchain Network

Prerequisites

Creating your own blockchain network with Hyperledger Composer

Installing your own blockchain network using Hyperledger Fabric and Composer

Summary

Further reading

Addressing Food Safety - Building around the Blockchain

Regulations, challenges, and concerns in the modern food chain

How blockchain and IoT can help in a food chain

Summary

Further reading

Designing the Solution Architecture

The business of food

The technological approach

Software components

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Creating Your Blockchain and IoT Solution

Technical requirements

Solution overview

Creating a blockchain network

Creating the IoT part of the solution

End-to-end testing

Summary

The IoT, Blockchain, and Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0

Cloud computing as an innovation platform

The IoT

Blockchain – simplifying business chains

Summary

Best Practices for Developing Blockchain and IoT Solutions

Developing cloud applications

Blockchain development using Hyperledger Composer

Summary

Further reading

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Blockchain and Hyperledger

There are many frameworks or technologies around blockchain: R3 (corda), Ethereum, Neo, and Nem, each one with a particular design and architecture. Throughout this book, we will focus on the blockchain technology Hyperledger (https://www.hyperledger.org/).

Hyperledger is part of the Linux Foundation, which was launched in 2016 with a technical and organizational governance structure and thirty founding corporate members. More than 230 members are now part of this initiative. This includes companies such as Cisco, Hitachi, IBM, ABN AMRO, ANZ Bank, Red Hat, VMware, and JP Morgan. Today, Hyperledger works with many projects under the same umbrella and focuses on differences in blockchain use cases, as well as covering frameworks and tools. A good description of Hyperledger projects can be found at https://www.hyperledger.org. Here, it is stated that Hyperledger...