Yesterday the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) released a whitepaper about the control of data where blockchain is part of an industrial IoT (IIoT) solution. The IIC recently merged with the Trusted IoT Alliance.
In the paper, the benefits of using blockchain are briefly addressed with one of the biggest being the ability to log IoT data with confidence that the data is not tampered with after the fact. Specific IIoT use cases include device monitoring such as logging service level (SLA) violations, edge autonomy including logging of faults without the need for an onsite inspection, and things like truck odometer fraud prevention.
Trucking was the use case explored in the paper. More specifically, whether the driver was going too fast and other service level infractions.
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