In the year of 1990, John Romkey created a toaster that could be turned on and off over the Internet for the October ’89 INTEROP conference. Dan Lynch, President of Interop promised Romkey that, if John was able to “bring up his toaster on the Net,” the appliance would be given star placement in the floor-wide exhibitors at the conference. John accepted the challenge and with the help of his friend Simon Hackett, he connected a Toaster to the Internet, becoming the hit of the 1990 Interop.

The toaster was connected to the Internet with TCP/IP networking, and controlled (turn the power on) with a Simple Networking Management Protocol Management Information Base (SNMP MIB). And I can say that from here journey of IoT started.

Since 1990 this IoT device network continuously growing and have made lot of progress, improvements. IoT now become part of human life. Basically, IoT can be any devices which has an IP address and can communicate with other devices over the internet. IoT devices can be used to track our health, day to day activities. We can control our home appliances remotely. You don’t even need to drive your car now, with the help of sensors and IoT devices, your car will take you to your destination. In short, there are n number of possibilities with these IoT devices

Many vendors realized the importance of IoT and started developing IoT devices. Even after years of existence of these IoT devices there is no set of standards for communication like we have for the internet. With internet anyone can simply start a website and they just need connection which can connect them to internet world and anyone from anywhere can access your website without any issue, because there is set of standard/protocol defined, for this communication. personal computers interact with servers through the http protocol presented on the browser, which is a form of standardization. The network for exchanges between different bitcoin nodes is also standardized. Now most of the IoT users feels that there is need of standardizing this IoT network so that two or more different IoT device systems can communicate with each other, exchange and make use of information.

Ruff_chain decided to solve this issue. Ruff Chain combines the Internet of Things technology with the blockchain. It contains a distributed operating system and an open main chain, connecting peer to peer network and consensus mechanism from the virtual world to reality. The key problem that Ruff want to solve is about providing trusted ability of systems or software to exchange and make use of information between different IoT devices and using these devices’ computing power to build an open Ruff ecosystem. Ruff is a platform designed to improve commerce by combining the Internet of Things and blockchain technology. Ruff incorporates a distributed operating system with an open blockchain, using virtual business to business networks and a consensus algorithm to realize better offline solutions for information flow and product sourcing needs.

Its not just a communication issue but, IoT network is facing issues with Security as well. Hackers are targeting these devices to steal the user data, and other sensitive information. It’s expected that by 2022, IoT device network will have 20 Billion plus IoT devices and securing these many devices will be huge task. IoT data often requires high consistency and security, which is a problem that no centralized technology can readily solve. But at Ruff security should not be a concern. The security of IoT is guaranteed by the OS’s security. Ruff uses a symmetric key, and the key is not transmitted over the network. In addition, the chain network releases a one-time token based on the timestamp to the application network, which therefore resists replay attacks.

IoT nodes are often very small computing units. Due to their power consumption requirements, their computing power is very low, their memory is very small. It is very difficult for such a node to participate in consensus processes. Therefore, the structure of the Internet of Things is necessarily composed of multiple nodes comprising a network.

Ruff_Chain is not just and ordinary project. This project have received multiple awards and recognition from industry figures including -

The First Batch to Join the New Microsoft Accelerator Shanghai

2016 Tech Crunch Beijing (Innovation Challenge Champion)

GiTC (Best Technology Innovator Award)

2016 Microsoft Innovation Summit (Best Investment Award)

Since its founding Ruff has already established partnerships with leading enterprises like: Microsoft China, Schneider, Baidu Cloud and muRata.

Ruff Token Sale Ended at 24:00 20th Jan 2018. During the ICO, Ruff team sold total of 700,000,000 RUFF token which was equivalent to 42,500 ETH. Ruff token are currently listed at FEX, Houbi and Gate exchange and current market price is $0.091974.

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