Blockchain Technologies and Applications for IoT

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global infrastructure for the information society. In the past few decades, the IoT has emerged, grown, and gradually affected the daily lives of human beings with new applications and services, ranging from wearable devices, smart manufacturing, smart girds, to smart homes, self-driving cars and ambient intelligence, to mention a few.

Unconventional characteristics in the IoT such as scalability, heterogeneity, mobility, limited resources, and security raise scientific and technical challenges, and render existing information and technology solutions inadequate.

The emergence of blockchain technologies opens new business opportunities in Fintech and distributed applications. They have developed into game changers due to their unique capabilities and benefits. Blockchain-based IoT will be nothing less than a paradigm shift and has potential to help address some of the IoT challenges.

By using blockchains as a back-end technology, it becomes possible to build large scale, peer-to-peer IoT systems in trustless environments by which all things and people self-manage their systems without relying on any third parties.

This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute with original contributions and reviews that address shortcomings and constraints of both IoT and blockchain technologies, address challenges in recent trends in IoT blockchain-based applications, and provide innovative solutions on the convergence of blockchain and IoT.

Dr. Youakim Badr
Prof. Dr. Salim Hariri
Guest Editors

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