The healthcare sector has a large deployment of critical assets, which must be available at the right place at the right time. This necessitates not only the location of the assets being monitored in real time but also the serviceability being ensured through predictive maintenance. The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed real-time data acquisition, which can be aggregated and analysed for meaningful inferences about the monitored process and assets. The information can be collected and exchanged through radio, Bluetooth or other communications technologies but raises privacy and security concerns as the critical asset information is susceptible to interception and tampering both in transit and at rest.The asset information is critical both for privacy preservation and tamper proofing. Combining the use of blockchain technology with IoT can provide a high degree of trust and security. The data can thereby be securely shared within the private blockchain only with the authorized parties. This chapter discusses the application of combining IoT and Blockchain technologies into a solution to address challenges in the healthcare sector. We then present architecture for integrating IoT, Edge Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technologies for asset management in the healthcare sector.
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