Earlier this fall, IBM announced that they are partnering with Samsung to create a new infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT), called Adept (said to be demoed at CES in January). One of the pieces of this as-yet-to-be-seen solution is a blockchain and possibly cryptocurrency as well.
A recent white paper which explains their end-to-end analysis of the problem and their approach.
Brody and Pureswaran on “Device Democracy” [Read More]
- Brody, Paul and Veena Pureswaran, Device Democracy: Saving the Future of the Internet of Things. IBM Institute for business Value, GBE03620USEN, 2014. http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/gbe03620usen/GBE03620USEN.PDF
- Higgins, Stan, IBM Executive Highlights Block Chain’s Utility for Internet of Things, in CoinDesk. 2014. http://www.coindesk.com/ibm-executive-block-chain-internet-of-things/