A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture
Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an enabling technology for numerous initiatives worldwide such as manufacturing, smart cities, precision agriculture, and eHealth. The massive field data aggregation of distributed administered IoT devices allows new insights and actionable information for dynamic intelli...
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| author | Odysseas Lamtzidis Dennis Pettas John Gialelis |
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| description | Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an enabling technology for numerous initiatives worldwide such as manufacturing, smart cities, precision agriculture, and eHealth. The massive field data aggregation of distributed administered IoT devices allows new insights and actionable information for dynamic intelligent decision-making. In such distributed environments, data integrity, referring to reliability and consistency, is deemed insufficient and requires immediate facilitation. In this article, we introduce a distributed ledger (DLT)-based system for ensuring IoT data integrity which securely processes the aggregated field data. Its uniqueness lies in the embedded use of IOTA’s ledger, called “The Tangle”, used to transmit and store the data. Our approach shifts from a cloud-centric IoT system, where the Super nodes simply aggregate and push data to the cloud, to a node-centric system, where each Super node owns the data pushed in a distributed and decentralized database (i.e., the Tangle). The backend serves as a consumer of data and a provider of additional resources, such as administration panel, analytics, data marketplace, etc. The proposed implementation is highly modularand constitutes a significant contribution to the Open Source communities, regarding blockchain and IoT. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-745b70fb0cac4af788720a319cb7aabf2022-12-22T03:18:41ZengMDPI AGApplied System Innovation2571-55772019-09-01233010.3390/asi2030030asi2030030A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision AgricultureOdysseas Lamtzidis0Dennis Pettas1John Gialelis2Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceComputer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceInternet-of-Things (IoT) is an enabling technology for numerous initiatives worldwide such as manufacturing, smart cities, precision agriculture, and eHealth. The massive field data aggregation of distributed administered IoT devices allows new insights and actionable information for dynamic intelligent decision-making. In such distributed environments, data integrity, referring to reliability and consistency, is deemed insufficient and requires immediate facilitation. In this article, we introduce a distributed ledger (DLT)-based system for ensuring IoT data integrity which securely processes the aggregated field data. Its uniqueness lies in the embedded use of IOTA’s ledger, called “The Tangle”, used to transmit and store the data. Our approach shifts from a cloud-centric IoT system, where the Super nodes simply aggregate and push data to the cloud, to a node-centric system, where each Super node owns the data pushed in a distributed and decentralized database (i.e., the Tangle). The backend serves as a consumer of data and a provider of additional resources, such as administration panel, analytics, data marketplace, etc. The proposed implementation is highly modularand constitutes a significant contribution to the Open Source communities, regarding blockchain and IoT.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/2/3/30precision agricultureblockchaininternet of thingsdistributeddata integritydata monetization |
| spellingShingle | Odysseas Lamtzidis Dennis Pettas John Gialelis A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture Applied System Innovation precision agriculture blockchain internet of things distributed data integrity data monetization |
| title | A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture |
| title_full | A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture |
| title_fullStr | A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture |
| title_short | A Novel Combination of Distributed Ledger Technologies on Internet of Things: Use Case on Precision Agriculture |
| title_sort | novel combination of distributed ledger technologies on internet of things use case on precision agriculture |
| topic | precision agriculture blockchain internet of things distributed data integrity data monetization |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/2/3/30 |
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