Blockchain and smart contracts for higher education registry in Brazil

Palma, Lucas M.; Vigil, Martín; Pereira, Fernando Lauro; Martina, Jean Everson

doi:10.1002/nem.2061

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“…4. Examining academic credits and issuing education certificates in the Brazilian educational system [53]. It has been proposed that, at present, the Brazilian educational system occurs in a semi-use and non-computerized manner to store information for qualification certificates in the education system.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain, IoT and Fog Computing for Smart Education Management

Chaiyarak

Koednet

Nilsook

2020

International Journal of Education and Information Technologies

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The objective of this research is to present the use of blockchain technology, the internet of things and fog computing to develop the potential of school management for smart education. By using the blockchain to record and store various pieces of information the organization will create credibility of administrative data in all departments and will reduce corruption. Data can be examined transparently, especially the financial and budget management and procurement of durable articles. Regarding the academic work and registration, it can be used to store learners' information, educational history, information of enrollment, academic results, and participation in the various activities of the educational institutions. It can create credibility in the management of information about content, learning and ability assessment results that students receive, and these can be recorded and stored in a blockchain that can be safely distributed. In addition, IoT and fog computing are integrated with AI systems embedded in various modern devices to be applied in environmental management and smart education management. IoT and fog computing help to support and respond quickly to questions about the use of all types of equipment for real-time management of executives, personnel and students, as well as creating new work and learning styles that can solve the situation of dangerous communicable diseases, such as the COVID-19 situation, or can solve emergency situations that will emerge in the future by working and studying from home. It can organize and share resources for work and learning together to access the organization from outside anywhere and at any time

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain, IoT and Fog Computing for Smart Education Management

Chaiyarak

Koednet

Nilsook

2020

International Journal of Education and Information Technologies

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“…Various research areas such as health, governance, IoT, supply-chain, business, and smart city were considered for building decentralized applications [46]. In this level, etheruem, hyperledger, and other platforms were used which having the ability to code smart contracts for a variety of decentralized applications [47], [48].…”

Section: B Background Of Blockchainmentioning

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Blockchain for Industry 4.0: A Comprehensive Review

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Due to the proliferation of ICT during the last few decades, there is an exponential increase in the usage of various smart applications such as smart farming, smart healthcare, supply-chain & logistics, business, tourism and hospitality, energy management etc. However, for all the aforementioned applications, security and privacy are major concerns keeping in view of the usage of the open channel, i.e., Internet for data transfer. Although many security solutions and standards have been proposed over the years to enhance the security levels of aforementioned smart applications, but the existing solutions are either based upon the centralized architecture (having single point of failure) or having high computation and communication costs. Moreover, most of the existing security solutions have focussed only on few aspects and fail to address scalability, robustness, data storage, network latency, auditability, immutability, and traceability. To handle the aforementioned issues, blockchain technology can be one of the solutions. Motivated from these facts, in this paper, we present a systematic review of various blockchain-based solutions and their applicability in various Industry 4.0-based applications. Our contributions in this paper are in four fold. Firstly, we explored the current state-of-the-art solutions in the blockchain technology for the smart applications. Then, we illustrated the reference architecture used for the blockchain applicability in various Industry 4.0 applications. Then, merits and demerits of the traditional security solutions are also discussed in comparison to their countermeasures. Finally, we provided a comparison of existing blockchain-based security solutions using various parameters to provide deep insights to the readers about its applicability in various applications.

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“…Transactions are used to transfer an asset from one account to another account. The owner of an asset can move it inside the blockchain, through an account identified by a public address, which is controlled by its corresponding private key [13].…”

Section: Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, the use of smart contracts has been evaluated for academic record systems [13,21,22,6,23,24]. Prototypes are implementing this type of mechanism in the Blockcerts 3 , but they are new and still being discussed.…”

Section: Framework Analyzedmentioning

confidence: 99%