Blockchain Enabled Industrial Internet of Things Technology

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computational social systems Vol. 6; no. 6; pp. 1442 - 1453
• Main Authors: Zhao, Shanshan, Li, Shancang, Yao, Yufeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.12.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Big Data; Blockchain; Business; Cryptography; Encryption; Industrial applications; industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); Industries; Internet of Things; Redundancy; Reliability; Security; security and privacy; social systems
• ISSN: 2329-924X; 2373-7476
• DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2924054

The emerging blockchain technology shows promising potential to enhance industrial systems and the Internet of things (IoT) by providing applications with redundancy, immutable storage, and encryption. In the past few years, many more applications in industrial IoT (IIoT) have emerged and the blockchain technologies have attracted huge amounts of attention from both industrial and academic researchers. In this paper, we address the integration of blockchain and IIoT from the industrial prospective. A blockchain-enabled IIoT framework is introduced and involved fundamental techniques are presented. Moreover, the main applications and key challenges are addressed. A comprehensive analysis for the most recent research trends and open issues is provided associated with the blockchain-enabled IIoT.