Blockchain Based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication and Digital Twins
- Over the last two decades, the rapid advances in digitization methods put us on the fourth industrial era’s cusp. It is an era of connectivity and interactivity between various industrial processes that need a new, trusted environment to exchange and share information and data without relying on third parties. Blockchain technologies can provide such a trusted environment. This paper focuses on utilizing the blockchain with its characteristics to build machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and digital twin solutions. We propose a conceptual design for a system that uses smart contracts to construct digital twins for machines and products and executes manufacturing processes inside the blockchain. Our solution also employs the decentralized identifiers standard (DIDs) to provide self-sovereign digital identities for machines and products. To validate the approach and demonstrate its applicability, the paper presents an actual implementation of the proposed design to a simulated case study done with the help of Fischertechnik factory model.
Author: | Mohammad Ghanem, Wolfgang Prinz |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mit1-opus4-130953 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.48446/opus-13095 |
ISSN: | 1437-7624 |
Parent Title (German): | Konferenzband zum Scientific Track der Blockchain Autumn School 2021 |
Publisher: | Hochschule Mittweida |
Place of publication: | Mittweida |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Mittweida |
Contributing Corporation: | RWTH Aachen University |
Release Date: | 2022/02/03 |
Tag: | digital identity; digital twin; machine to machine communication; smart contracts |
GND Keyword: | Blockchain; Industrie 4.0 |
Issue: | 004 |
Page Number: | 9 |
First Page: | 068 |
Last Page: | 076 |
Open Access: | Frei zugänglich |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |