On The Case of Blockchain Adoption in the Internet of Things

Proceedings

Ferrari, Carlo¹  Pedrini, Davide²  Migliardi, Mauro³  Merlo, Alessio⁴ 

[1] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;DEI, University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy;DIBRIS, University of Genoa, 16145 Genova, Italy;These authors contributed equally to this work.

关键词: blockchain;    IoT;    scalability;    database;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2191231

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Recently blockchain technology has been advocated as a solution fitting many different problems in several applicative fields; among these fields there is the Internet of Things (IoT) too. In this paper we show the most significant properties of a blockchain, how they suite the use case of a cryptocurrency and how they map onto the needs of IoT systems. We claim that a blockchain does not provide a significant advantage with respect to other database technologies in a field such as Internet of Things where computational power comes at a premium, energy is often scarce and storage scalability is a major challenge.

【 授权许可】

CC BY