Ciscohas won a new patent detailing how the company could leverage blockchain tosecure data in 5G telecommunication networks.
Asper a November 26 filing from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Ciscosubmitted a patent application in June 2018 for a blockchain platform that canbe natively integrated in wireless networks. “This service-orientedarchitecture supports network slices, which employ an isolated set ofprogrammable resources that can implement individual network functions and/orapplication services through software programs within a respective networkslice, without interfering with other functions and services on coexisting networkslices,” the filing said.
IBMhas also filed a patent for a system that makes use of blockchain technology toprevent drone-enabled package theft. As per the filling published by the USPTOon November 12, IBM will track drone altitude using an IoT altimeter, whilecontinuously uploading that data to a blockchain secure platform. Packages infuture will be fitted with an altitude sensor that will trigger an alarm ifthere is a significant altitude change outside of the preset criteria. TheGPS-enabled IoT device will transmit its exact location data to a trackingmodule once the alarm is triggered.
Last month Titan Class, an Australian agricultural IoT firm, received an unspecified investment from Cisco. Both firms had jointly developed an IoT decision support platform called ‘eXtensible Decision Platform’ for farmers. Cisco says: “With a single Titan Class deployment, farmers can use up to thousand sensors without restriction. These sensors have been proven on operating farms to reliably communicate over several kilometers from a simple on-farm communications tower and each sensor has inexpensive commodity batteries that can last for years.”
