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Edge Computing Integrated with Blockchain

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheraline-barthelmy-0625b870/' The exponential growth of IoT devices is giving rise to newer and more complex applications that require real-time results. Traditional cloud architecture involves IoT devices sending data to sometimes distant servers in a central repository, introducing latency and sometimes not meeting these applications’ quality-of-service requirements.

IoT architecture can be divided into three layers: an IoT device layer, edge layer and a cloud layer.

Communication between IoT devices, between devices and the edge server, or between edge servers are recorded as transactions and stored on the edge server blockchain.

The edge layer offloads this computational overhead from IoT devices and stores all transactions between IoT devices, and between IoT devices and the edge servers on the blockchain.