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Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain.

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132243
Pages 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Maximiliano Santos Maximiliano Santos
Profile icon Maximiliano Santos
Enio Moura Enio Moura
Profile icon Enio Moura
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Understanding IoT and Developing Devices on the IBM Watson IoT Platform 2. Creating Your First IoT Solution 3. Explaining Blockchain Technology and Working with Hyperledger 4. Creating Your Own Blockchain Network 5. Addressing Food Safety - Building around the Blockchain 6. Designing the Solution Architecture 7. Creating Your Blockchain and IoT Solution 8. The IoT, Blockchain, and Industry 4.0 9. Best Practices for Developing Blockchain and IoT Solutions 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Regulations, challenges, and concerns in the modern food chain


Can you imagine acquiring a credit letter from a bank in a few hours, and sharing it with your providers in a few minutes? How about you receive an update from the customs department about the status of your goodswith no bureaucracyand complete security?

Yes, this is all possible, and it is a fact that such information (product status updates, credit approval letters, and so on), gathered by using IoT and blockchain technologies, is important. However, the benefits brought by blockchain technologies go much further than the ones we've just mentioned.

Before exploring these additional benefits, let's go through some of the challenges that are faced by this industry and the regulations that are put in place to try and implement food safety.

Challenges regarding food safety

The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) estimates that each year 48 million people fall sick from a food-borne illness, 128,000 people get hospitalized...

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