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Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal
Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal
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Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal

Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal has over 26 years of software development and management experience, including 10 years in delivering complex IoT projects. Currently employed with IBM as a Principal Architect (IoT and cloud) and considered a thought leader with over 31 IoT patents, he has a deep understanding of IoT concepts/architectures and has delivered IoT projects in diverse domains such as consumer goods, smart buildings, healthcare, precision agriculture, automobile, and manufacturing. His extensive experience in both the public cloud and embedded domains gives him a unique edge in conceiving innovative end-to-end IoT solutions. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India.
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Blockchain

Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that stores all transactions in a distributed fashion (that is, each node in the network gets a transaction copy). Every transaction in the blockchain (that is, every block) is stored alongside a timestamp that is validated and approved by all the entities or nodes in the network. Once approved, the transaction is aggregated as a block and replicated on each node in the network. As a result, transactions maintained by blockchain technology are considered immutable and tamperproof. These capabilities enable blockchain to solve one challenge – that is, integrity. Here, there are three key security challenges that any IoT solution is expected to mitigate, which form the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) triad. In Figure 12.1, blockchain is represented using this image:

Figure 12.2 – Blockchain

Benefits of combining IoT and blockchain

As we saw in Chapter 11, field devices...

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Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal

Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal has over 26 years of software development and management experience, including 10 years in delivering complex IoT projects. Currently employed with IBM as a Principal Architect (IoT and cloud) and considered a thought leader with over 31 IoT patents, he has a deep understanding of IoT concepts/architectures and has delivered IoT projects in diverse domains such as consumer goods, smart buildings, healthcare, precision agriculture, automobile, and manufacturing. His extensive experience in both the public cloud and embedded domains gives him a unique edge in conceiving innovative end-to-end IoT solutions. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India.
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