Blockchain enabled industrial Internet of Things technology

Zhao, Shanshan; Li, Shancang; Yao, Yufeng

Abstract

The emerging blockchain technology shows promising potential to enhance industrial systems and the Internet of things (IoT) by providing applications with redundancy, immutable storage, and encryption. In the past a few years, many more applications in industrial IoT (IIoT) have emerged and the blockchain technologies have attracted huge amounts of attention from both industrial and academic researchers. In this paper we address the integration of blockchain and IIoT from the industrial prospective. A blockchain enabled IIoT framework is introduced and involved fundamental techniques are presented. Moreover, main applications and key challenges are addressed. A comprehensive analysis for the most recent research trends and open issues is provided associated with the blockchain enabled IIoT.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 10, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jul 9, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 18, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 18, 2019
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
• Print ISSN: 2329-924X
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1442-1453
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2019.2924054
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1493038
• Contract Date: Jun 18, 2019