Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain : Discover How Converging IoT and Blockchain Can Help You Build Effective Solutions.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; About Packt; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Understanding IoT and Developing Devices on the IBM Watson IoT Platform; What is IoT?; Common business use cases of IoT; Connected car; Connected persons; Technical elements in IoT ; Devices; Edge computing; Networking; Wireless (Wi-Fi) or cabled network; Cellular/mobile network; Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN); LoRa or LoRaWAN; Network summary; Application protocols; MQTT; Analytics and AI; IBM Watson IoT Platform features; Features; Dashboard; Devices, gateways, and applications

SecurityCreating your first IoT solution; Creating a gateway; Creating an application; Creating a device; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 2: Creating Your First IoT Solution; Technical requirements; The first IoT solution -- the gardening solution; Requirements overview; Solution overview; Selecting the equipment; Intel Edison; Arduino breakout board ; Grove system; Grove base shield for Arduino; Grove sensors; Grove button; Grove relay; Wiring the device; Coding the device firmware; Measuring soil moisture; Measuring environmental temperature; Turning on the relay; Publishing events

Monitoring the eventsSubscribing to actions; Creating the backend application; Creating a Cloud Foundry application in the IBM Cloud Platform; Uploading the code; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 3: Explaining Blockchain Technology and Working with Hyperledger; What is blockchain?; Blockchain and Hyperledger; Hyperledger projects; Hyperledger Sawtooth framework; Hyperledger Iroha framework; Hyperledger Composer tool; Hyperledger Burrow framework; Hyperledger Fabric; Member or peer; Certificate Authority (CA); Ordering Cluster; SDK/API; Selecting a good use case

Blockchain -- food tracking use caseSummary; Questions; Further reading; Chapter 4: Creating Your Own Blockchain Network; Prerequisites; Creating your own blockchain network with Hyperledger Composer; Accessing Hyperledger Composer; Exploring the structure of a sample blockchain network; Installing your own blockchain network using Hyperledger Fabric and Composer; Setting up Docker; Installing Hyperledger Composer; Components; Step 1 -- Setting up CLI Tools; Step 2 -- Setting up Playground; Step 3 -- Hyperledger Fabric; Step 4 -- IDE ; Installing Hyperledger Fabric 1.3 using Docker

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric 1.3 to a Kubernetes environmentSummary; Further reading; Chapter 5: Addressing Food Safety -- Building around the Blockchain; Regulations, challenges, and concerns in the modern food chain; Challenges regarding food safety; Food safety regulations -- ISO 22000; How blockchain and IoT can help in a food chain; Food ecosystem; Opportunities and challenges in a food ecosystem; Farmers; Food manufacturers; Regulators; Transporters (transportation companies); Stores and supermarkets; Customer; Is the food chain a good use case for IoT and blockchain technology?; Summary

Further reading

IoT and Blockchain are not limited to certain industries or use cases. Almost any business with a network and IoT device can reduce costs, improve business efficiency, and remove single points of failure in networks by implementing Blockchain. This book will help you implement an end-to-end Blockchain and IoT solution using best practices.

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