Blockchain, Cybersecurity, and Industry 4.0

Author(s):  
Abhishek Bhattacharya

The world is going digital, and the wave of automation is sweeping across all facets of our corporate and personal lives. Industry 4.0 is all about leveraging IoT (internet of things) devices to facilitate further the process of automation that helps all organisations to rapidly scale by leveraging technology. The amount of data and information generated by the connected things is being harnessed with the help of advanced algorithm empowered analytics to induce intelligence into all the actions undertaken for the functioning of these connected devices. This chapter is geared towards giving a representative outlook on the concepts of blockchain that see a base in the concepts of cybersecurity. Further to that, this chapter explores the very imminent use cases of what we call the Industry 4.0. This includes use cases from remmitance, insurance, governance, internet of things (IoT), and supply chain, including the kinds of challenges we currently face.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Tranter

Security is always at the forefront of developing technologies. One can seldom go a week without hearing of a new data breach or hacking attempt from various groups around the world, often taking advantage of a simple flaw in a system’s architecture. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these developing technologies which may be at risk of such attacks. IoT devices are becoming more and more prevalent in everyday life. From keeping track of an individual’s health, to suggesting meals from items available in an individual’s fridge, these technologies are taking a much larger role in the personal lives of their users. With this in mind, how is security being considered in the development of these technologies? Are these devices that monitor individual’s personal lives just additional vectors for potential data theft? Throughout this survey, various approaches to the development of security systems concerning IoT devices in the home will be discussed, compared, and contrasted in the hope of providing an ideal solution to the problems this technology may produce.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Tranter

Security is always at the forefront of developing technologies. One can seldom go a week without hearing of a new data breach or hacking attempt from various groups around the world, often taking advantage of a simple flaw in a system’s architecture. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these developing technologies which may be at risk of such attacks. IoT devices are becoming more and more prevalent in everyday life. From keeping track of an individual’s health, to suggesting meals from items available in an individual’s fridge, these technologies are taking a much larger role in the personal lives of their users. With this in mind, how is security being considered in the development of these technologies? Are these devices that monitor individual’s personal lives just additional vectors for potential data theft? Throughout this survey, various approaches to the development of security systems concerning IoT devices in the home will be discussed, compared, and contrasted in the hope of providing an ideal solution to the problems this technology may produce.


Author(s):  
Vasaki Ponnusamy ◽  
Bobby Sharma ◽  
Waqas Nadeem ◽  
Goh Hock Guan ◽  
N. Z. Jhanjhi

We are in the era of Industry 4.0 with the world going towards everything, everywhere, and anytime with “things” being enablers of technology. Our world is becoming smarter with everything (mobile phones, cars, TVs) connected to each, having unique addresses and communication mechanisms. It is foreseen that by 2025 every little thing, like pen, paper, food packages, etc., would be operated over the internet by internet of things (IoT) towards a smarter world. However, in order to enable the smart world to be sustainable, IoT should be embarking into energy efficient (green) paradigms. Since IoT is also a key enabler for smart cities, a green-aware design of smart cities could see a potential to create a green IoT ecosystem for smart cities. This ecosystem would comprise the green IoT lifecycle, the six pillars of smart cities, and focusing on the green infrastructure, green applications, and green energy. This conceptual study would motivate researchers embarking into smart city projects and keeping green concepts intact in their design and implementations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 103127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Garrido-Hidalgo ◽  
Teresa Olivares ◽  
F. Javier Ramirez ◽  
Luis Roda-Sanchez

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abderahman Rejeb

Recently, Halal food has drawn remarkable attention of many consumers around the world. Besides to being unsafe, Halal food such as meat can encounter several issues throughout its supply chain and logistics. At any time, Halal integrity is not guaranteed and risks of becoming non-Halal is the major concern of all parties along the supply chain. To respond to Muslim consumers’ trust concerns in Halal food, many traceability systems were proposed in previous studies based on emerging technologies and  recommended to be incorporated into Halal food supply chains. Nevertheless, all of these systems are centralized, opaque and not enough transparent. To mitigate these problems, blockchain technology is introduced as a ground-breaking innovation with greater decentralization, visibility and transparency. This paper makes a major contribution in suggesting Halal meat supply chain traceability system for real-time food tracing based on embedding Islamic dietary law into HACCP, blockchain and Internet of Things.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohan Kumar Ch ◽  
M Kameswara Rao

Internet of Things (IoT) generally referred as Industry 4.0, Now a day’s Application Areas are everywhere like Smart Transportation, Smart Construction, Fitness monitoring, Energy Supervision, Construction managing, Environmental Supervise, Groceries supply chain. IoT has a compound network of smart nodes; information sending and receiving of nodes are through the Internet. In this process, it is vulnerable to attacks. In This paper, we review the possible attacks with respect to Cisco- Seven Layer model.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4158
Author(s):  
Shehzad Ahmed ◽  
Tahera Kalsoom ◽  
Naeem Ramzan ◽  
Zeeshan Pervez ◽  
Muhammad Azmat ◽  
...  

The Internet of Things (IoT) and its benefits and challenges are the most emergent research topics among academics and practitioners. With supply chains (SCs) gaining rapid complexity, having high supply chain visibility (SCV) would help companies ease the processes and reduce complexity by improving inaccuracies. Extant literature has given attention to the organisation’s capability to collect and evaluate information to balance between strategy and goals. The majority of studies focus on investigating IoT’s impact on different areas such as sustainability, organisational structure, lean manufacturing, product development, and strategic management. However, research investigating the relationships and impact of IoT on SCV is minimal. This study closes this gap using a structured literature review to critically analyse existing literature to synthesise the use of IoT applications in SCs to gain visibility, and the SC. We found key IoT technologies that help SCs gain visibility, and seven benefits and three key challenges of these technologies. We also found the concept of Supply 4.0 that grasps the element of Industry 4.0 within the SC context. This paper contributes by combining IoT application synthesis, enablers, and challenges in SCV by highlighting key IoT technologies used in the SCs to gain visibility. Finally, the authors propose an empirical research agenda to address the identified gaps.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gatot Suharjanto ◽  
Khristian Edi Nugroho Soebandrija

This paper elaborates discourse on Highway Automatic Tollgate (HAT) within logistics and supply chain engineering perspectives. The aforementioned HAT and its implementation are complying with the Product Design Engineering’s perspectives within theoretical and industrial implementation through Industry 4.0 in Indonesia. The objective of this paper is to intertwine the theoretical perspectives with industrial implementation. The industrial implementation constitutes the effort to implement paperless system for HAT in order to reduce wasted papers that are necessarily needed by user of this HAT, as transaction proof. The result and discussion of this paper comprise several discussions to be considered. To begin with, the result of this paperless system helps the cleaning service officers to reduce their cleaning duty. Furthermore, the result of this paperless system integrates the concept of industry 4.0 within scope of internet of things (IoT) and internet of everything (IoE). Subsequently, the discussion on this paper refers to the discourse on logistics and supply chain engineering perspectives, to ease the transaction proof involving big data. As a result, it reduces significantly the vehicle traffic and time needed to proceed to transaction in the aforementioned HAT. This paper refers to the research methodology within quantitative approach. As future research, it is indispensable to intertwine both aforementioned theoretical and industrial implementation. Both implementation, as future research, need to be integrated within the Asia Region. Keywords: big data analytics; internet of things; making Indonesia 4.0; paperless mechanism; product design engineering


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe de Campos Martins ◽  
Alexandre Tadeu Simon ◽  
Renan Stenico de Campos

Abstract: The Supply Chain has undergone major transformations due to the need to implement new Industry 4.0 technologies, such as Internet of Things, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems and Cloud Computing. Thanks to these technologies, as well as to their subsystems and components, full integration of the supply chain is becoming possible. However, it is observed that the real impacts of Industry 4.0 technologies, rather positive or negative, are not yet totally clear and identified. This paper aims to identify and present an analysis of the challenges and obstacles that Industry 4.0 technologies may cause in the Supply Chain. For this, the most relevant papers on the topic were selected and analyzed through a systematic literature review. Twenty challenges grouped into four macrogroups were identified: (1) technical challenges, (2) financial, environmental and legal challenges, (3) technological challenges, and (4) sociocultural challenges. It should be noted that these challenges require greater attention and more in-depth studies on the part of the academy to support industry in order to mitigate them and thus allow better use of the available technological resources and optimize the performance of Supply Chain operations.


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