1st Edition
Blockchain for Industry 4.0 Blockchain for Industry 4.0: Emergence, Challenges, and Opportunities
This reference text provides the theoretical foundations, the emergence, and the application areas of Blockchain in an easy-to-understand manner that would be highly helpful for the researchers, academicians, and industry professionals to understand the disruptive potentials of Blockchain. It explains Blockchain concepts related to Industry 4.0, Smart Healthcare, and the Internet of Things (IoT) and explores Smart Contracts and Consensus algorithms. This book will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer engineering, and information technology.
This book
• Discusses applications of blockchain technology in diverse sectors such as industry 4.0, education, finance, and supply chain.
• Provides theoretical concepts, applications, and research advancements in the field of blockchain.
• Covers industry 4.0 digitization platform and blockchain for data management in industry 4.0 in a comprehensive manner.
• Emphasizes analysis and design of consensus algorithms, fault tolerance, and strategy to choose the correct consensus algorithm.
• Introduces security issues in the industrial internet of things, internet of things, blockchain integration, and blockchain-based applications.
The text presents in-depth coverage of theoretical concepts, applications and advances in the field of blockchain technology. This book will be an ideal reference for graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields such as electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and information technology.
Preface vii
Editors ix
Contributors xiii
1 The rise of blockchain technology in healthcare for
the preservation of patient-centric health records 1
BILAL AHMED MIR, SICHENG LIU, ZHEN LI, SHUGUFTA ABRAHIM WANI,
TANVEER A. MIR, YUSERA FAROOQ KHAN, SHADIL IBRAHIM WANI,
MASAYOSHI FUKUSHIMA, AND TAKUTO YAMAGUCHI
2 Industry 4.0 cross-domain blockchain solutions in
healthcare: trends and clinical considerations 23
USHARANI HAREESH GOVINDARAJAN, GAGAN NARANG,
NIKOLA ZIVLAK, AND VINAY SURENDRA YADAV
3 Blockchain in banking and financial services 45
HIMANSHU FALWADIYA, SANJAY DHINGRA, AND SHELLY GUPTA
4 Safeguarding blockchains from adversarial tactics 63
ALEX NEELANKAVIL DEVASSY AND DHANITH KRISHNA
5 Problems with the implementation of blockchain
technology for decentralized IoT authentication:
a literature review 91
VIJAY ANANT ATHAVALE AND ANKIT BANSAL
6 Blockchain – foundational infrastructure for
web 3.0 and cryptoassets 121
ASHUTOSH DUBEY, DEEPNARAYAN TIWARI, AND ANJALI TIWARI
7 Applications of blockchain technology for
sustainable education 143
FRANKLIN JOHN AND NIKHIL V. CHANDRAN
8 Blockchain technology in banking and
financial services sector in india 161
SWARAJ M.
9 Legal dimensions of blockchain technology 175
RENUKA V. AND SHANMUGHAM D. JAYAN
10 Blockchain for securing the IoT based smart wireless
surveillance cameras 191
AURANGJEB KHAN AND JAYANTHI M.
11 Central bank digital currency 215
VIDYASHANKAR RAMALINGAM
12 Blockchain technology in disaster management:
A high-level overview and future research dimensions 229
SREELAKSHMI S. AND VINOD CHANDRA S. S.
13 Interoperable blockchain systems 245
RADHA SRIDHARAN AND MANJU SADASIVAN
14 Blockchain for industry 4.0: Overview and foundation
of the technology 267
MEGHA GUPTA AND SUHASINI VERMA
15 Enabling cross border trade in the face of regulatory
barriers to data flow – the case of the blockchain-based
service network 285
SHOUFENG CAO, XAVIER BOYEN, FELICITY DEANE,
THOMAS MILLER, AND MARCUS FOTH
Index 305
Biography
Anoop V.S., Samson Williams
