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Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain

You're reading from   Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain Discover how converging IoT and blockchain can help you build effective solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132243
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maximiliano Santos Maximiliano Santos
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Enio Moura Enio Moura
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding IoT and Developing Devices on the IBM Watson IoT Platform 2. Creating Your First IoT Solution FREE CHAPTER 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 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

The technological approach 


Now that we have a better understanding of our process and potential problems, let's see how technology can be useful to us. Here's a representation of a standard blockchain Hyperledger Fabric architecture:

The preceding diagram shows us three important layers: frontend applications (on the left), API/SDK (in the center), and Hyperledger Fabric and the IoT platforms (on the right). 

Let's review each layer in more detail.

Frontend applications

This layer is responsible for data input and can be a packet, such as one from SAP, Salesforce, or Siebel, or a custom application. It can also interact with IoT devices, collecting data and registering in the blockchain ledger. The modern architecture for developing frontend applications consists of these layers:

Note

Okay, I know there are a lot of other tools for each layer than those presented here, but I just used the ones I'm more familiar with.

This type of frontend architecture allows us to separate our services from a...

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