BlockMedCare: A healthcare system based on IoT, Blockchain and IPFS for data management security by Kebira Azbeg, Ouail Ouchetto, Said Jai Andaloussi

“…The security is ensured by using the re-encryption proxy combined with Blockchain to store hash data. Smart contracts are used for access control. To ensure Blockchain scalability, an off-chain database based on IPFS is used to store data. …”
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Trends and Directions of Financial Technology (Fintech) in Society and Environment: A Bibliometric Study by Adeel Nasir, Kamran Shaukat, Kanwal Iqbal Khan, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Talha Mahboob Alam, Suhuai Luo

“…These research streams are related to ‘cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, financial technology’, ‘financial industry stability, service, innovation, regulatory technology (regtech)’, and ‘machine learning and deep learning innovations’. …”
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ID-Care: A Model for Sharing Wide Healthcare Data by Humberto Jorge De Moura Costa, Cristiano Andre Da Costa, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Rodrigo Da Rosa Righi, Paul Andrew Crocker, Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt

“…Thus, we propose a decentralized software model based on blockchain and smart contracts that includes privacy, global unique person identification supporting multiple combinations of documents, and biometric data using the Global Standards 1 - GS1 healthcare industry standard. …”
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Enhancing enterprises trust mechanism through integrating blockchain technology into e-commerce platform for SMEs by Sasikumar Asaithambi, Logesh Ravi, Malathi Devarajan, Abdulaziz S. Almazyad, Guojiang Xiong, Ali Wagdy Mohamed

“…It is made up of decentralized data storage, a consensus algorithm, and smart contracts. As a result, integrating e-commerce platforms and blockchain networks to help SMEs overcome their security difficulties. …”
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Blockchain-Based Intelligent Charging Station Management System Platform by Yu-Jin Lin, Yu-Cheng Chen, Jun-Yi Zheng, Dan-Wei Shao, Dan Chu, Hong-Tzer Yang

“…This paper integrates CSMS through smart contracts, providing EV users that ability to conduct power transactions and perform optimal charging and discharging control in real-time. …”
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Blockchain-Enabled Framework for Transparent Land Lease and Mortgage Management by Laila Junaid, Kashif Bilal, Junaid Shuja, Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

“…We verify the system by employing smart contracts and assess the cost and security parameters while validating the blockchain-based mortgage and lease functions.…”
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A Financial Management Platform Based on the Integration of Blockchain and Supply Chain by He Liu, Biao Yang, Xuanrui Xiong, Shuaiqi Zhu, Boyu Chen, Amr Tolba, Xingguo Zhang

“…Blockchain is used to integrate supply chain finance to synchronize the bank account payment system, realize the automatic flow of funds, process supervision and automatically settle account periods based on smart contracts. The four functional modules of the system are designed using unified modeling language (UML), and the model view controller (MVC) architecture is selected as the main architecture of the system. …”
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Addressing Planetary Health through the Blockchain—Hype or Hope? A Scoping Review by Rita Issa, Chloe Wood, Srivatsan Rajagopalan, Roman Chestnov, Heather Chesters, Geordan Shannon

“…All articles included the use of blockchain technology, with others additionally incorporating smart contracts, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and machine learning. …”
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RAMi: A New Real-Time Internet of Medical Things Architecture for Elderly Patient Monitoring by Olivier Debauche, Jean Bertin Nkamla Penka, Saïd Mahmoudi, Xavier Lessage, Moad Hani, Pierre Manneback, Uriel Kanku Lufuluabu, Nicolas Bert, Dounia Messaoudi, Adriano Guttadauria

“…A local blockchain allows workload orchestration between Fog, MEC, and Cloud while a global blockchain secures exchanges and data sharing by means of smart contracts. Our architecture allows to follow elderly persons and patients during and after their hospitalization. …”
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Enhancing Logistics With the Internet of Things: A Secured and Efficient Distribution and Storage Model Utilizing Blockchain Innovations and Interplanetary File System by Nwosu Anthony Ugochukwu, S. B. Goyal, Anand Singh Rajawat, Chaman Verma, Zoltan Illes

“…The model also establishes rules by using smart contracts, which increases efficiency. The performance evaluation of the proposed model was done based on the security transactions, latency, cost, and throughput. …”
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A Blockchain Protocol for Authenticating Space Communications between Satellites Constellations by Mohamed Torky, Tarek Gaber, Essam Goda, Vaclav Snasel, Aboul Ella Hassanien

“…Developing blockchain solutions using smart contracts could be used in securely authenticating various P2P satellite communications and transactions within/between satellite swarms. …”
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Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain platform for Indian Dairy Industry: Safety and Traceability by Abhirup Khanna, Sapna Jain, Alessandro Burgio, Vadim Bolshev, Vladimir Panchenko

“…The proposed blockchain-enabled dairy supply chain platform combines the use of smart contracts, quick response code (QR code) technology, and IoT and has the potential to redefine the dairy supply chains on socio-economic, operational, and sustainability parameters.…”
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Hybrid Blockchain for IoT—Energy Analysis and Reward Plan by Jiejun Hu, Martin J. Reed, Mays Al-Naday, Nikolaos Thomos

“…Blockchain technology has brought significant advantages for security and trustworthiness, in particular for Internet of Things (IoT) applications where there are multiple organisations that need to verify data and ensure security of shared smart contracts. Blockchain technology offers security features by means of consensus mechanisms; two key consensus mechanisms are, Proof of Work (PoW) and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT). …”
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A Blockchain-Based OCF Firmware Update for IoT Devices by Elizabeth Nathania Witanto, Yustus Eko Oktian, Sang-Gon Lee, Jin-Heung Lee

“…We implemented our protocol using Raspberry Pi hardware and Ethereum-based blockchain with the smart contracts to record metadata of the manufacturer’s firmware updates. …”
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Strategic potential of digital platforms for the development of industrial acceleration and venture investments by A. S. Khvorostyanaya, I. V. Rozhdestvensky, A. V. Filimonov

“…In this regard, the main purpose of this article is to consider a possible mechanism for solving this problem using digital platforms based on distributed ledger technology in the part that relates to smart contracts, as well as a platform for semi-automatic examination of projects using the technology readiness assessment methodology. …”
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A Novel Resource-Saving and Traceable Tea Production and Supply Chain Based on Blockchain and IoT by Xiaofeng Xu, Xianglin Bao, Haodong Yi, Jun Wu, Jinglei Han

“…To evaluate the proposed solution, a prototype is implemented by designing a blockchain infrastructure with ten main smart contracts and constructing an IoT-based system sandbox for automatic environment monitoring and resource allocation. …”
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Security of Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Management Systems: Challenges and Opportunities by Sana Al-Farsi, Muhammad Mazhar Rathore, Spiros Bakiras

“…For investigation, we follow a unique approach based on the hypothesis that reliability is pre-requisite of security and identify the threats considering (i) design of smart contracts and associated supply chain management applications, (ii) underlying blockchain execution environment and (iii) trust between all interconnected supply management services. …”
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Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Energy Trading on Blockchain Using Dual Binary Encoding for Inner Product Encryption by Turabek Gaybullaev, Hee-Yong Kwon, Taesic Kim, Mun-Kyu Lee

“…The adoption of blockchain technology in P2P energy trading has been considered to be the most promising solution enabling secure smart contracts between prosumers and users. However, privacy concerns arise because the sensitive data and transaction records of the participants, i.e., the prosumers and the distribution system operator (DSO), become available to the blockchain nodes. …”
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New International Projects on the Use of Central Bank Digital Currencies in Transforming Cross-border Settlements by Alexey V. Maslov, Kristina V. Shvandar

“…It is planned to allow for delay-free settlement of transactions with digital financial assets, automation of the use of smart contracts, and tracking of budget calculations. …”
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Distributed Ledger Technology as a Tool for Environmental Sustainability in the Shipping Industry by Srdjan Vujičić, Nermin Hasanspahić, Maro Car, Leo Čampara

“…The conversion of traditional paper contracts into smart contracts, which can be digitalized and read through automation, provides a new wave of collaboration between eco systems across the shipping industry. …”
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