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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

Blockchain – simplifying business chains


As business models evolve, they tend to have a leaner approach. In this context, a lean industry is meant to focus only on things that have value to the target client of the product. Whatever procedure, part of the product, or process that creates it that does not provide value to the product is considered useless and must be removed or changed so it adds more value to the end-to-end solution. With the same approach, smart business models tend to only have steps that add value and knowledge to the business model, which means that outsourcing is still a big deal in this area. Becoming lean is not easy and cheap if you don't know how to integrate the end-to-end service chain into the business.

Blockchain comes into action when outsourcing or decentralizing business tasks are vital to the model, by giving the opportunity to decentralize tasks. Let's take a look at a traditional car sales process in the following diagram:

Whenever a customer buys a car...

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