In supply chain and many other industry verticals there is a lot of opacity related to the origin of products and the chain of custody. Blockchain at scale unlocks a network of trust and value, which connects to the real world using IoT.

1. BigchainDB and IoT
Towards a data-driven economy
Dimitri De Jonghe
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2. Authentic Products: Certified by Manufacturer
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3. Know Your Product?
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4. The Origin: Supply Chain Networks
Recordkeeping
paper, sms, email, calls, …
Inefficiency
change records, own versions/formats, disagreements
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5. Here’s
your
product
data
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6. Product Lifecycle Pain Points
Can we uniquely represent physical goods in a digital world?
How to connect physical with digital?
How to connect digital with value?
Peer-to-peer: without the middleman
How to control and exchange digital assets?
How to enforce trust and compliance between identities?
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7. Blockchain: a trust network for supply chains
A transparent, immutable,
democratic source of truth
Everyone works from the same truth
Value = data + trust + identity
IoT connects physical with digital
Digital “twin”
Unalterable ID inside
Powered by IoT
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8. Blockchain: a trust network for supply chains
Powered by IoT
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9. BigchainDB: Big Data meets Blockchain
a blockchain database
Immutability
Decentralized Control
Native Assets
Scalable
Queryability
Integration
Traditional
Databases
Traditional
blockchains
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10. Towards a decentralized compute infrastructure
FILE SYSTEM
e.g. S3, HDFS
IPFS, SWARM
APPLICATION
PROCESSING
e.g. EC2, Azure, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Tendermint, Lisk, Corda
DATABASE
e.g. MySQL, MongoDB
BigchainDB, IPDB
PLATFORM
e.g. AWS, Google App Engine, Heroku, Eris/Monax, BlockApps, Tymlez, Gem
CONNECTNETWORKS
e.g.TCP/IP,Interledger,Cosmos,
Polkadot
e-Cash/e-Gold
Bitcoin, zCash, Ripple,
Blockstream, Multichain
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11. Do you care where your products come from?
The industry with the highest water waste is textiles…
Is this a mad cow burger? No? Are you sure?!
Have you ever bought a used car and got screwed?
Studies have shown that if only 1 car out of 20 is a lemon, the resale value of all
cars drops by 10%
Can you rent power?
We can rent cars, hotelrooms and mobile roaming, why can’t we rent power?
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12. Innovation as a Luxury
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13. Car Passport
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14. Utility as a Service
Decentralized
Logic
Decentralized
Storage
IoT
Power Socket
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Total
consumption
sharge.io
Physical
Digital
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https://github.com/bigchaindb/kyber/tree/master/examples/iot_bdb_ethereum_bseh17/app

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16. Dimitri De Jonghe
dimi@bigchaindb.com
@DimitriDeJonghe
https://be.linkedin.com/in/dimitridejonghe
+32 496 809 414
Project contributions:
- ascribe.io
- bigchaindb.com
- ipdb.foundation
- github.com/bigchaindb
- interledger.org
Thanks for listening
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