A Decentralized Marketplace for M2M Economy for Smart Cities
Stefano Musso, Guido Perboli, Mariangela Rosano, Alessandro Manfredi · 2019
Data Marketplace will be the engine of economic progress in smart cities. To foster the new Business Models of the Data and the Machine-to-Machine Economy, there are two needs: managing the plethora of sources of data and link them by a trusted, decentralized and scalable infrastructure. The two disruptive technologies able to foster this innovation are the Internet of Things (IoT) on the data-sources side and the Blockchain on the data marketplace side. In this paper we present a distributed data marketplace allowing different actors to purchase and monitor data streams coming from the smart city thanks to the use of IOTA technology, a Blockchain specifically developed for IoT networks. The marketplace is public and can be the starting point of other IOTA-based solutions.