Internet of Things

Internet of things can be approach from the perspective of the Actor model - it is a system of individual actors, communicating asynchronous via messages and trying to coordinate their behaviour / maximize joint wealth / value creation. The fact that they are physically separated is not the main issue. From this perspective the picture is the same for 'traditional' internet, distributed computing system running on many cores or offer network for that matter.

It seems that what is important is to build a platform which allows data suppliers and users to find each other and, most importantly, negotiate the terms of 'collaboration'; Blockchain technology would be a part of such system, but not its basis; The idea of negotiation between devices is related to Offer networks and Ceptr.