Enabling Distributed Intelligence in the Internet of Things using the IOTA Tangle Architecture
Tariq Alsboui, Yongrui Qin, Richard Child Hill · 2019
It is estimated that there will be approximately 26 to 30 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by 2020. This presents research challenges in areas such as data processing, infrastructure scalability, and privacy. Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of using distributed intelligence to overcome these challenges. This article reviews existing state-of-the-art distributed intelligence approaches in IoT and focuses on the motivations and challenges for distributed intelligence in IoT. We propose a potential solution based on IOTA (Tangle), a platform that enables highly scalable transaction-based data exchange amongst large quantities of smart things in a peer-to-peer manner, together with mobile agents to support distributed intelligence. Challenges and future research directions are also discussed.