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1.5 Combining IoT and Blockchain
ОглавлениеAs we have already seen, IoT connects and facilitates communication for devices connected to each other via the internet and provides storage space over a cloud, thus enabling devices to establish communication between one another and interact to successfully perform certain tasks without the requirement of any human intervention. But we see the need to ensure that this transfer mechanism as well as storage of any shared signals or information should be made secure and attack proof. This is taken care of by incorporating blockchain along with IoT. The combination of both these technologies helps fulfil the necessary security mechanism requirement to IoT which it otherwise lacked. The information that is received by a cloud can be accommodated in a tamperproof and permanent storage in a blockchain thus ensuring that the functioning of the machines, task communication, and messages to each other cannot be manipulated and reach completion in their intended manner. With incrementing the safety standards that the technology offers we will be able to attract a larger chunk of users to adopt and utilize this, and explore more vivid application throughout various spheres. No matter how huge the advancements any technique offers, without it being secure and trustworthy it cannot be brought in usage as the customer world will not accept it and might lead to theft of information or any such crime. Let us now look into the enhancement that these have brought about through various spheres as mentioned in Figure 1.4.
Figure 1.4 IoT and blockchain across industries.