Shared Lifecycle Management
- Marta Piekarska-Geater
Keeping Internet Things up to date and healthy requires a team effort – it is not the sole responsibility of a single stakeholder in the IoT value chain and accounting for who needs to perform what action at what time is a significant challenge. Thing Makers, System Integrators, Owners, Operators and Auditors may all have a role to play in maintaining Internet Things and Jitsuin connects these stakeholders with blockchain technology to reach agreement on the state of Things at any given instant. With that shared knowledge they can make faster, better decisions. Jitsuin Shared Device Lifecycle Assurance can track any type of Internet Thing – from security hardened microcontrollers to general purpose embedded computers. Understanding the provenance and lifecycle of Things enables clean and truthful data for man or machine to act with assured intelligence. Shared Device Lifecycle Assurance enables higher levels of trust in data from Things. Higher trust means more value in data to fund the maintenance of Things. Sustainably funded maintenance keeps Things producing truthful data. A virtuous circle completes to keep Things in service longer and reduce electronics waste. Jitsuin is independent of chip architecture, chipset, device maker, and IoT platform and records data about Things, which enables stakeholders to build consensus in their IoT value chains. IoT data marketplaces will only function with clean data. Now more than ever, a record of how Things were born secure and maintained throughout their lifetime is the meta-information that’s needed to trust the IoT.