Survey of Blockchain-Based Applications for IoT
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced critical challenges related to security, scalability, and data integrity. Blockchain technology, with its decentralized, immutable, and tamper-resistant framework, presents a transformative solution to address these challenges. This study explores blockchain applications in the IoT, focusing on security, automation, scalability, and data sharing. Industry-specific applications, including supply chain management, smart cities, and healthcare, highlight the potential of blockchains to optimize operations, ensure compliance, and foster innovation. Additionally, blockchain technology enables robust audit trails, enhances accountability, and reduces fraud in sensitive IoT applications, such as finance and healthcare. The synergy between blockchains and the IoT creates a secure and transparent platform for managing device interoperability and data exchange, fostering seamless communication between diverse IoT components. Furthermore, this paper discusses layer 2 scaling techniques and tokenization to address scalability, ownership, monetization, and cost challenges, providing practical solutions for real-world deployments. Future directions emphasize integrating blockchain systems with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and edge computing, offering groundbreaking capabilities to further revolutionize IoT ecosystems. By merging these advanced technologies, organizations can build secure, scalable, and intelligent systems to drive innovation and trust.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".