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IoT and Blockchain: Improve asset visibility and compliance

We continue to connect and instrument our physical world. As we do so, more and more opportunities arise to ensure that our assets and processes are performing well, and within regulatory limits. Using the IoT and blockchain, organizations can now improve asset visibility and compliance to ensure regulators and third parties are in sync. Customers who manage assets often leverage manual or point-to-point processes as a way to keep their systems in sync with those of the regulators and third parties. These current processes introduce opportunity for error and also allow for potential fraud in documentation. As more assets require third party oversight, costs and opportunity for error increase. Customers need the ability to show compliance from their systems. This provide transparency and increases trust among the partners (i.e. regulators, third parties) in their network.

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