Use of Blockchain in Internet of things: A Systematic Literature Review

In recent years, Internet of things have revolutionized the daily life operations by automating routine tasks, changing the way humans interact with each other or with machines. In fact, direct machine to machine interaction is a key enabling feature of IOTs. Their advantages span from small house hold devices to large industrial systems. Although IOTs provide numerous benefits, their implementation possesses different problems mainly because of the critical nature of the tasks they perform and due to their limited computational capabilities. The Blockchain is the future disruptive technology that has gained the interest of large number of industries to address the issues being faced by them. In this paper, we highlighted issues pertaining to the IOT domain and then analyzed the way how these can be solved using Blockchain features. In addition, we also highlighted the problems that arise with the deployment of Blockchain in IOTs.