WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”) is a leading global IoT chip manufacturer and cybersecurity leader announces that it has partnered with IoTeX. It is a leading Blockchain-based platform which is powering the world’s first “private by design” smart devices, namely Ucam (ucam.iotex.io), and will authorize other types of devices across smart home, healthcare, and more.
WISeKey and IoTeX as partners will work together at the joining of secure hardware and Blockchain technology to evolve the tools for verifiably trusted secure manufacturing.
The standard of the output depends on the input materials and the processes used in production during manufacturing. The project will utilise secure semiconductors to guarantee the genuineness, honesty, and controllable of input materials and processes. Blockchain entries will be generated to make sure authentic materials, process integrity, and the final quality assurance test results. This combination will give immutable traceability for manufactures to reveal the quality and integrity of the products that they produce and is seeing applicability across many market verticals.
The partnership integrates the data authenticity and integrity benefits of tamper-proof secure hardware with the data invariableness and decentralization properties of Blockchain. This collaborated technology increases the quality control guarantees from the common “proof‑of‑output” (i.e. quality assurance) to “proof‑of‑input” and “proof‑of‑process”.
Raullen Chai, Co-founder of IoTeX stated that IoTeX is thrilled to begin on this journey with WISeKey to bring verifiable trust to manufacturing. WISeKey’s skill in manufacturing and utilizing microchips with built-in secure hardware greatly companion the IoTeX platform and increase the future possibilities of trusted IoT solutions.
The particular use case is a 3D printer which is Blockchain enabled. This use case was select because all features of manufacturing can be marked as Blockchain transactions. The genuineness of inputs is secure by WISePrint, and the VaultIC which make sure the integrity of the process and the quality assurance of the output. Eventually, all data and metadata associated with the input and process verification are “time-stamped” to the Blockchain, which acts as a fixed source of record testable by all stakeholders.
WISeKey and IoTeX will signify the co-developed solution in enterprise-focused forums and testbeds, such as the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the world’s main collective of Industrial IoT organizations concentrated on product development and testing.
