Internet of Things (IoT) technology is one of the fastest growing (widely used) technology since past few years, you can find IoT devices almost everywhere. It’s being used home (home automation), office, car/Transportation, smartphone, agriculture (collecting data on temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, pest infestation, and soil content), medical industry (remote health monitoring and emergency notification systems), Environmental monitoring (monitoring air or water quality, atmospheric or soil conditions), Energy management, you see the list will go on and on. There are lots of things possible with IoT devices, you can actually control entire household (electronic) items using IoT devices. IoT devices simplifying our life or making it automated.

But these IoT devices have some issues, one of the main issues is it lacks security. These IoT devices communicating with other devices over the public internet and I don’t have to tell you how unsafe the internet world is. These IoT devices are so tiny that implementing foolproof security feature is not an easy task. Specially developed OS for IoT devices is long due. An OS which can be used for IoT devices without any major changes in size of the device or without reducing the functionality or the performance of the device.





IoT_Chain

IoT_Chain (ITC) team taken this challenge and started working on this project with 4 main vision -

- To implement impenetrable security in our Internet of Things network

- To give control of data back to its rightful owner

- To provide unparalleled stability and speed for data transfer

- To promote the development of artificial intelligence through user data

ITC team managed to develop high security lite IoT OS. They designed the OS which will work on everyday objects as simple as light bulbs embedded with the ITC chip. ITC OS is compatible with many different types of IoT devices due to its lite nature and it will help in creating a network of nodes that is larger, secure and faster than ever before. ITC team developed this OS in keeping energy efficiency in mind, rather than using the concept that you need complex calculations or heavily encrypted data to be the best, the team takes the simple approach that less is more. You might think if data is not heavily encrypted means data can be hacked, but that’s not the case here. Team has adopted the asymmetrical encryption which will keep your data safe. Even if hacker manage to get your data, they can’t do anything with it as ling as private key is kept properly. Using blockchain technology, ITC is going to establish a decentralized IoT network, this network will have tens of thousands of nodes in future which will meet the IoT data storage requirement. And because of the blockchain’s decentralized nature, your data is always safe, and you won’t lose any of your personal information. At ITC, user have all the rights to decide what they want to do with their data. They can agree to use the data for development of artificial intelligence which can be useful for many cases, especially in Medical field.





Introduction of IoT Chain Chip -

Initial plan of ITC team was to just develop OS for IoT device, but recently they came up with hardware chip. In the traditional Internet of Things, the role of the chip is very limited and mainly used for data acquisition, storage, and Edge computing. But here, the chip adds two features, first, the chip will provide each device with a unique ID on the network this way IoT devices can be managed effectively. Second, it will reduce the risk of data tampering, and maintain the data sovereignty of the device by using trusted execution environment (TEE) or secure operating OS. After obtaining the authentication of the OS, the user or the device can operate on sensitive information and access data through a specific encrypted channel.





ITC team consistently posting (weekly) updates at their medium channel, you can also follow their other social media channel to receive information, updates about the project.



https://twitter.com/IoT_Chain

https://t.me/IoTChain

https://medium.com/iot-chain

https://www.reddit.com/r/iotchain/

https://github.com/IoTChainCode

https://www.facebook.com/IoTChain/

https://iotchain.io/



