In Germany, just 16 percent of plastic waste is recycled. There are even fewer worldwide. This is the result of the “Plastic Atlas 2019”. Plastic waste is increasingly and becoming a global problem. A conceivable solution would be a kind of global reusable system based on DLT. A Feeless solution for payments, as the cryptocurrency IOTA represents it, would be conceivable, because micropayments are possible. During my vacation this year, I have witnessed the plastic garbage problem in various parts of the world. That is also…

Advanced MAM explorer for Industry 4.0 applications Distributed Data Logger (DDL) was created with the purpose of extending and boosting the well-known Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) second IOTA layer, allowing a MAM channel reader to access additional features. More specifically a MAM channel has these properties: - it can be read only starting from a known root id (the unique message identification number) up to the last message in the channel; - it can be read only sequentially, because the fetch function,…

The full article was originally published by DXC. Read the full article here. The number of connected devices is predicted to grow to 75 billion by 2025. This will create a massively connected ecosystem, and data security will be paramount. Many of these devices will be cyber-physical systems, which closely integrate computation, networking and physical processes. The devices consist of a physical entity and its cyber twin, which can replicate the behavior of the physical machine and give insights into how the machine…

The full article was originally published by EDAG. Read the full article here.A fully autonomous transport and working vehicle to make city gridlocks a thing of the past and open up new business models Wiesbaden, 20.08.2019 – tomorrow now! This is the motto of the 50th anniversary of the EDAG Group in 2019. At the IAA, the EDAG Group will be hosting the world premiere of the "EDAG CityBot" concept car – a fully autonomous, networked robot vehicle which, with its numerous trailer and rucksack modules, is capable of…

The full article was originally published by EDAG. Read the full article here. Fulda, 20th August, 2019 Innovation pioneers trive.me have developed a revolutionary parking app that uses IOTA’s Tangle, an innovative distributed ledger technology which delivers secure, open-source and fee-free machine to machine micropayments functionality, as a new and innovative platform for trive.park’s parking payment app solution. Before starting their travels, drivers can use the trive.park app to book and pay for a parking slot…

This is the first in a series of posts that explain the consensus protocols described in IOTA Coordicide. The main objective of this series is to keep the community updated on recent research results and also to explain interesting research questions having good chances to be funded by Coordicide grants. As you will see, the topic is quite vast and there are a lot of connections and dependencies on other parts of the Coordicide project. Faced with this complexity, we’ll try to explain only a few points at a time and…

To Drive Blockchain Technology to the Next Stage with Morethan 100 Members 20 August, 2019. Taipei, Taiwan. BiiLabs, a Blockchain-as-a-Service startup company, recently announced that it has joined the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) as a member of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and blockchain provider. The INATBA brings together industry, startups and SMEs, policy makers, international organisations, regulators, civil society and standard setting bodies to support DLT and…

According to Zion Market Research, the global wine revenue is expected to exceed 420 billion by the end of 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 5.8% between 2017 and 2023. The market show tremendous potential with the lure of the wine developing its own aroma and essence over time. However, developing such unique flavor requires specific storage environmental conditions such as darkness (avoid sunlight exposure), stable and constant cool storage temperature (approximately 13°C) with a relative…

Now that CClient v1.0.0-beta is released, IOTA can implement a hardware wallet based on it. I will, in this blogpost, briefly explain the architecture of the IOTA Wallet on ESP32 and I will demonstrate the wallet application. Introduction The CClient library is meant to apply the Tangle into IoT ecosystems. It is able to communicate with small devices. The ESP32 is a good candidate because it has built-in wireless connectivity. But what’s the ESP32? It is a 32bit SoC (System on Chip) based on the Xtensa LX6 It…

Comparing IOTA Energy Consumption per Transaction (ECPT) with Bitcoin and Ethereum is funny but in this report, we measuring IOTA PoW ’s ECPT and comparing the result with VISA and Master Card payment systems. The result show IOTA PoW ’s ECPT is less than VISA and Master Card payment systems and IOTA network is more efficient but we have some constraints. VISA & MasterCard Energy Footprint per Transaction According to VISA corporate responsibility and sustainability report in 2017, the company consumed a total…

IOTA Announces $5 Million in Grants for Coordicide-related Research Coordicide is the top priority for the IOTA Foundation. Now academia and other research organizations can receive grants to further the adoption of the technology and propel the growth of the IOTA Ecosystem. Read More Recent News IOTA Links with STMicroelectronics to Accelerate IoT Technology Integration IOTA joins forces with ST, Europe’s largest semiconductor producer. Watch more about the partnership in the video below. Read more… Watch…

“The innovation is the tangle, do we need an IOTA Token?” “Yes we do” A short introduction: I am Olaf, a software engineer with experience in databases, distributed systems, edge computing, graph theory and relevant for this article: IOTA. I have been working for about two years with IOTA and I rarely use token transactions. I can honestly say that I actually never do it. I just use zero value transactions…. In relation to this, there is a question that comes up quite often when I and others talk about IOTA: What is the…