Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain

▶Book Description
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.

▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Understand the key roles of IoT in the current market
⦁ Study the different aspects of IBM Watson IoT platform
⦁ Create devices, gateways, and applications connected to the platform
⦁ Explore the fundamentals of Blockchain
⦁ Define good use cases for Blockchain
⦁ Discover the Hyperledger Fabric and Composer frameworks
⦁ Develop an IBM Watson IoT application using a Intel Edison
⦁ Integrate IoT with the Blockchain platform

▶Key Features
⦁ Explore practical implementation of ledger technology in the IoT architecture
⦁ Study security best practices for your smart devices
⦁ Understand Blockchain implementation for end-to-end IoT solutions

▶Who This Book Is For
Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain is for you if you are an Internet of Things (IoT) analyst, architect, engineer, or any stakeholder responsible for security mechanisms on an IoT infrastructure. This book is also for IT professionals who want to start developing solutions using Blockchain and IoT on the IBM Cloud platform. Basic understanding of IoT will assist you in understanding key concepts covered in the book.

▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Understanding IoT and Developing Devices on the IBM Watson IoT Platform, helps you understand how IoT can be a game changer, what industries can do with this technology, how to get started in the IoT world, and what features the IBM IoT Platform provides and how you can leverage those features when creating an IoT solution.

⦁ Chapter 2, Creating Your First IoT Solution, helps you create your first end-to-end IoT solution using the platform and a Raspberry Pi to exercise your skills. You will create an automated garden-watering system that uses the platform to keep plants adequately watered.

⦁ Chapter 3, Explaining Blockchain Technology and Working with Hyperledger, introduces you to blockchain and helps you to understand how it works with a ledger to record the history of transactions that provide a permissioned network with known identities.

⦁ Chapter 4, Creating Your Own Blockchain Network, helps you create your own blockchain network using Hyperledger Composer, and explores how to create an asset, transaction functions, access control, and query definition.

⦁ Chapter 5, Addressing Food Safety - Building around the Blockchain, helps you design and implement a solution to address a logistics problem. You will gain an understanding of how an IoT and blockchain solution can ensure that a food chain that starts at a farm and ends on a person's plate can be securely tracked throughout its journey using those technologies, and in order to gain the compliance from many countries that will apply to this practice in a few years.

⦁ Chapter 6, Designing the Solution Architecture, helps you design the solution architecture from the food safety transportation business problem and define the requirements for a technical solution using blockchain to support the distributed ledger network and IoT devices, and the platform, to support the tracking process.

⦁ Chapter 7, Creating Your Blockchain and IoT Solution, shows you how to create a blockchain and IoT-integrated solution to address food safety transportation problems. You will gain hands-on experience using blockchain and IoT platforms by coding and testing the components designed in the previous chapter.

⦁ Chapter 8, The IoT, Blockchain, and Industry 4.0, helps you understand what the industry trends are and what new business models can be created or derived from IoT and blockchain solutions, as well as the market and technical trends regarding these technologies.

⦁ Chapter 9, Best Practices for Developing Blockchain and IoT Solutions, helps you understand previous project experiences and scenarios, and looks at the best practices and lessons learned for designing and developing blockchain and IoT solutions.