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.

• 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
      • Security
  • Creating 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 events
    • Subscribing 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 case
  • Summary
  • 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 environment
  • Summary
  • 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
• Chapter 6: Designing the Solution Architecture
  • The business of food
    • Challenges of the process
    • The process at the food factory
    • The process at the distribution center
    • The process at supermarkets and stores 
  • The technological approach 
    • Frontend applications
    • IoT-based asset tracking
    • API/SDK
    • Hyperledger Composer – a high-level overview
  • Software components
    • Composer REST server
    • Hyperledger Composer model
    • The Hyperledger Composer access control language
    • Hyperledger Composer transaction processor functions
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Further reading
• Chapter 7: Creating Your Blockchain and IoT Solution
  • Technical requirements
  • Solution overview
  • Creating a blockchain network
    • Concepts and enumerations
    • Asset definitions
    • Participants
    • Deploying and testing the business network for Hyperledger
    • Manipulating assets via transactions in the blockchain
    • Generating and exporting participant business cards
    • Defining access control lists (ACLs)
    • Upgrading the business network to a newer version
    • Setting up Composer REST servers for each participant
  • Creating the IoT part of the solution
    • Hardware setup
    • Firmware development
    • Application development
  • End-to-end testing
    • Creating a FoodBox
    • Transferring the asset to the transporter
    • Measuring the temperature while transporting
    • Transferring the asset to the warehouse
    • Creating a pallet and adding the box to it
    • Measuring the temperature while transporting a pallet
    • Tracking the FoodBox
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: The IoT, Blockchain, and Industry 4.0
  • Industry 4.0
  • Cloud computing as an innovation platform
    • The cloud computing model
      • The importance of cloud computing to Industry 4.0
  • The IoT
  • Blockchain – simplifying business chains
  • Summary
• Chapter 9: Best Practices for Developing Blockchain and IoT Solutions
  • Developing cloud applications
    • Reference architecture
    • Development using the 12–factor application model
    • Serverless computing
  • Blockchain development using Hyperledger Composer
    • The Hyperledger Composer toolkit
    • The Hyperledger Composer REST server
      • Authentication and multiuser mode
      • Data source configuration
  • Summary
  • Further reading
• Other Books You May Enjoy
• Index