- Title
- Blockchain for digital twins : recent advances and future research challenges
- Creator
- Yaqoob, Ibrar; Salah, Khaled; Uddin, Mueen; Jayaraman, Raja; Omar, Mohammed; Imran, Muhammad
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/184371
- Identifier
- vital:16489
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.001.1900661
- Identifier
- ISBN:0890-8044 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The advent of blockchain technology can refine the concept of DTs by ensuring transparency, decentralized data storage, data immutability, and peer-to-peer communication in industrial sectors. A DT is an integrated multiphysics, multiscale, and probabilistic simulation, representation, and mirroring of a real-world physical component. The DTs help to visualize designs in 3D, perform tests and simulations virtually prior to creation of any physical component, and consequently play a vital role in sustaining and maintaining Industry 4.0. It is anticipated that DTs will become prevalent in the foreseeable future because they can be used for configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics. This article envisages how blockchain can reshape and transform DTs to bring about secure manufacturing that guarantees traceability, compliance, authenticity, quality, and safety. We discuss several benefits of employing blockchain in DTs. We taxonomize the DTs literature based on key parameters (e.g., DTs levels, design phases, industrial use cases, key objectives, enabling technologies, and core applications). We provide insights into ongoing progress made towards DTs by presenting recent synergies and case studies. Finally, we discuss open challenges that serve as future research directions. © 1986-2012 IEEE.
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Relation
- IEEE Network Vol. 34, no. 5 (2020), p. 290-298
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ IEEE
- Subject
- 4006 Communications Engineering; 4606 Distributed Computing and Systems Software
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