Blockchain IoT Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)

Blockchain IoT Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)

The blockchain IoT market is expected to register a CAGR of 40% over the forecast period, 2021 - 2026. With the rapid development of communication technologies, the Internet of Things is experiencing exponential growth, both in research and industry, and is getting out of its infancy to a maturity phase with the volume of data generated, transmitted, and processed. However, it still suffers from pitfalls, such as privacy and security vulnerabilities, that are leveraged by the asymmetric cryptography of the blockchain technology.

Key Highlights

• The traditional IoT systems are powered by centralized topology where data is transmitted from physical devices to the cloud, where the data is processed using analytics and output is received back to the IoT device, but the increase in the frequency of network devices limits the scalability of the IoT platforms and risks it with vulnerabilities that would eventually compromise users’ network security and privacy.
• For instance, in 2017, the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced that St. Jude Medical's implantable cardiac are vulnerable to hack due to vulnerabilities in the transmitter powered by IoT which were deployed to monitor the patient heart function and control heart attack. Also, few of the infamous IoT attacks include Mirai Botnet DDoS attack that affected internet service for the entire East Coast of America, including Netflix, Reddit, and Twitter.
• The blockchain powered by decentralized architecture and cryptographic encryptions leverages the IoT platform by ensuring the privacy and security in a peer-to-peer network. However, it requires high computational power, resulting in higher bandwidth overhead and delay.
• Furthermore, centralized architecture, such as cloud model that powers traditional IoT, results in latency, high cost, and the risk of single point of failure. Blockchain technologies, on the other hand, provide security protocols and infrastructure that enable billions of IoT devices to have trusted interoperability for both data and commerce.
• The financial institutions and other major companies are usually inherently slow in adopting any new technology but banks and financial institutes, such as HSBC and Deutsche Bank, that are exploring the potential of blockchain technology added with the flexibility IoT open up innumerable use cases to run smart operation, leveraging the everyday devices equipped with sensors and thereby achieving more efficiency.
• The rapid growth of urbanization and government initiatives across the world foster the demand for smart cities. The smart cities are entitled to problems, such as high operation cost of the data center, poor security of IoT, and equipment maintenance, among others. However, technologies, such as blockchain IoT, would provide the necessary infrastructure for transaction management, asset tracking, and smart contracts, while ensuring security and transparency, and thereby, increasing the operational efficiency.
• For instance, smart city developer Hancom Group announced that its 470 acres smart city project, Gapyeong Malang Malang Smart Ecosystem, will be incorporating blockchain as the basis for development.

Key Market TrendsSmart City End Users to Hold a Major Market Share

• Over the last few decades, the world has experienced unparalleled urban growth, majorly due to an increase in population, scarcity of resources, and climate changes. According to the United Nations, about 54% of people dwell in cities, which is expected to reach 66% by 2050. To cope up with the urban growth, government bodies are focusing on modern technologies, such as IoT, wireless communication, and blockchain, aiming to reduce cost and use resources optimally.
• For instance, the Netherlands deployed IoT infrastructure in Amsterdam to regulate and monitor the city's energy usage, traffic flow, and safety, real-time.
• Data security is one of the vital constraints for devices and services deployed in a metropolitan city, which leveraged with the blockchain's decentralized platform, ensures the trust of the public, and hence, fosters the growth of the market.
• Also, government initiatives around the world are starting to appreciate the potential of blockchain as it provides the infrastructure necessary for transaction management, while ensuring transparency and security, which stand to be critical elements in smart city implementation.
• For instance, in 2015, India pioneered to openly enact a smart city mission across 12 cities with a government-approved tender amounting to INR 1,62,000 crore under this program. Additionally, the government recently announced the report card for the 100 selected smart cities in June 2020

Asia-Pacific to Witness the Highest Growth

• The Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at the highest rate over the forecast period, owing to the rising influx of technology companies in the region, coupled with the increasing investments in IoT technology, smart city deployments, government initiative, and growth of urban population.
• For instance, in November 2019, Hyperchain, a blockchain firm, announced that China's State Grid Corporation accepted its bid for a blockchain solution to leverage the Internet of things (IoT) capabilities as part of its procurement program.
• Also, in February 2020, the Chinese central government issued the CCP Central Committee and State Council Opinions Concerning Effectively Seizing Key Work in the ‘Three Agricultures’ Sphere featuring the application of advance technologies, such as IoT, blockchain and artificial intelligence in Chinese agriculture.
• In August 2019, Reliance, a leading Indian multinational conglomerate company, announced its plan to introduce a blockchain network with emphasis on modernizing the agriculture supply chain at its annual general meeting. The plan is aimed to be delivered by August 2020 and is expected to be capable of fulfilling thousands of node operations added with smarty city initiatives by the government, which is expected to drive the growth of the IoT market.

Competitive Landscape

The blockchain IoT market is highly competitive owing to the presence of many large and small players in the domestic as well as international markets. The market appears to be fragmented due to the presence of many technological giants. Key strategies adopted by the major players are product innovations and mergers and acquisitions. Some of the major players in the market are Cisco Systems Inc., Google Inc., IBM Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation, among others.

• October 2019 - IBM announced a new supply chain service based on its blockchain platform and its recently acquired, Red Hat open-source software. This service enables developers to integrate legacy data systems on to the distributed ledger with the help of open APIs. The end users, such as distributors, manufacturers, and retailers, would seamlessly be able to integrate the data from sources, such as IoT sensor systems onto Hyperledger, so as to track products throughout the supply chain in real-time.
• September 2019- Linux Foundation announced that it seeks to closely integrate with IOTA Foundation to further leverage LF Edge table. This open collaboration leads the development of LF Edge framework, which is an open-source stack of cloud interoperability, IoT edge with distributed ledger technologies, and would help the company leverage its stack of technologies to advance its development approach toward interoperable solutions for IoT, cloud and edge integration.

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Companies Mentioned
 
Quirepace Limited
Delfin Industrial Vacuums
Pullman Ermator Inc.
Hoover Commercial
Polivac International Pty Ltd
VAC
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MAX
Tennant Company
Robert Bosch GmbH
Numatic International Ltd
Nilfisk, Inc.
Kerstar UK Ltd.
Oreck Corporation
British Vacuum Company
American Vacuum Company
Alfred Karcher GmbH and Co. KG

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