BCoT: Introduction to Blockchain-Based

Internet of Things for Industry 5.0

Debashis De, Amiya Karmakar, Partha Sarathi Banerjee,

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

Abstract The Internet of Things is reforming Industry 5.0 to featured blockchain-

driven secure connectivity—fundamental characteristics of IoT encounter chal-

lenges like decentralization, security vulnerabilities, and deprived interoper-

ability. Blockchain-based centralized technology addresses the challenges of IoT.

Blockchain of Things(BCoT) shows the convergence of Blockchain and IoT. The

developments in multi-virtual sensor IoT, and heterogeneous multi-system informa-

tion fusion for BCoT are analyzed in detail. The future challenges of industrial appli-

cations of BCoT are discussed in detail. BCoT-based Sustainable Cities and Society

(SCS) focuses on developing environmentally, economically, and socially sustain-

able resilient cities. Dew computing-based BCoT enables the smart city seamless

even at unstable Internet connectivity in remote areas.

Keywords Blockchain · Internet of things · BCoT · Smart contract · Decentralized

IoT · Scalable IoT · Fog computing · Edge computing · Dew computing

D. De (B) · A. Karmakar

Department Computer Science and Engineering, Centre of Mobile Cloud Computing, Maulana

Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, WestBengal, India

e-mail: [email protected]

P. S. Banerjee

Department of Information Technology, Kalyani Govt Engg College, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

S. Bhattacharyya

Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, West Bengal, India

J. J. P. C. Rodrigues

College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China),

Qingdao 266555, China

Senac Faculty of Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, Brazil

Covilhã Delegation, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Covilhã, Portugal

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