Ruff is a platform designed to improve commerce by combining the Internet of Things and blockchain technology.
What is IoT -
Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of connected physical objects that are accessible through the internet. IoT is the network that enables interconnections between any ordinary physical device or objects. It could be a person with a heart monitor or an automobile with built-in-sensors. In short IoT is objects which can collect and transfer data over a network without manual assistance or intervention. The embedded technology in the objects helps them to interact with internal states or the external environment.
Why we need IoT?
An article by Ashton published in the RFID Journal in 1999 said, “If we had computers that knew everything there was to know about things - using data they gathered without any help from us - we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, loss and cost. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best. We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information, so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its random glory.” This is precisely what IoT platforms does for us. It enables devices/objects to observe, identify and understand a situation or the surroundings without being dependent on human help.
Now you understand the importance of the IoT in our life and how in future there will be n number of devices per person which suppose make human life simpler. But there are problems with current IoT devices, network, such as communication problem between two IoT devices. It’s not just among different product types but also among products belonging to the same types as well.
The Internet of Things often proves an isolated, closed system wherein wide area IoT and local IoT are unable to interact. Privatized industrial systems and IDC-based IT networks are difficult to connect. However, IoT data often requires high consistency and security, which is a problem that no centralized technology can readily solve.
There are standard protocols implemented on the hardware level but lacks when it comes to the application layer. There is need of single/common platform or technology where all different IoT devices can communicate without any problem, and we can enjoy the full benefits of IoT like we are enjoying with internet. What is needed is the introduction of operating system and middleware concepts, compatibility with the fragmented spectrum IoT hardware devices, and a unified programming interface.
Modern IoT technologies are often accompanied by redundant nodes and mixed up clouds, but blockchain offers the possibility of a total solution to consistency and security issues. Unfortunately, blockchain development currently suffers from lack of infrastructure, high technical threshold, and excessive technical risk. So far, there are no mature solutions to the scalability problems that are frequently pointed out. As a result, the current distributed app development is sparse and remains at the virtual level, not yet having real world interactivity.
RuffChain –
Ruffchain started in 2014 to solve communication and standardization issues of IoT network, and to provide unified programming interface. Since its establishment it has focused on IoT. And within 2 years of establishment they developed Ruff OS, which is the world’s first IoT OS based on the JavaScript development language and it supports cross-platform code running. This has provided an open, efficient and quick IoT app development platform for software development. Hardware can be operated by just calling the program library, significantly lowering the threshold of IoT app development and providing a standardized IoT OS for IoT layer access.
Ruff’s community has already grown to encompass the work of tens of thousands of developers, and is the industry's most prevalent IoT operating system. In addition to a core of technically skilled team members, team members have also been listed for Forbes China’s 2017 30 Under 30 mention and other notable awards and accolades for achievements in business development and marketing.
RUFF tokens -
RUFF tokens, the virtual currency of contracts. The RUFF tokens will be the benchmark for incentives, spending, and trading within the Ruff public chain ecosystem. Within the Ruff ecosystem, one or several types of tokens are generated as a standard of settlement. Consumers consume tokens during property or data transactions. Use of equipment rights and data generating transactions will also be settled using tokens. Any Ruff-based smart contract can claim its own token for settlement.
Ruff token is listed and currently trading on Huobi, Gate and Fex. And current token price is $0.106331 per token. Total supply of Ruff token is 1,840,000,000 RUFF and circulating supply is 921,800,000 RUFF.
If you want to know more about Ruffchain project you can visit below sites, social media platform-
https://ruffchain.com
http://www.facebook.com/RuffChainProject/
http://t.me/ruffchain
http://medium.com/@ruffchain
first of all this is a wonderful article and also ruffchain has been operating For more than two years that's really awesome. That's a clear indication that ruffchain knows what they are doing.
It is quite interesting being in business for 2 whole years. I can see they have some movement in CMC as well.
You're right it's a real testament to their project and their idea that they are team that have been together for a couple of years already. Hopefully this means they will be around for years to come.
Yeah as we can see from the achievements they have made so far. I would say they should continue to give in their best.
Ruffchain development community has been active For a long time now honestly I never had idea. Thanks for this info, will be checking it out
Nicely written article, Ruff is doing extremely well and has reached cooperation with many famous companies such as Microsoft China, Schneider, Baidu Cloud, and muRata.
Ye. Their choice of partners is really intriguing. They are already positioning themselves for a great future with this.
It’s gonna be a huge network they made some smart choices already that should allow them to scale up quite well I’m interested to see how they do there’s gonna be competition but they have a headstart
Nice to know that they have a track record, this is actually my first time of seeing the project and i will look more into it, nice article
From your article ruffchain has been around since 2014, good to know they have been playing a role in the betterment of IoT devices.
Yea. That implies the amount of experience they must have bagged all these years. Although it's a different background game entirely with crypto
Since 2014, ruff chain have come quite a long way and have achieved a lot since then. Although they still have so much more to accomplish and also capture the IoT market.
The amount of experience gather during those times will really come in handy. Although the crypto world is different from the normal world but still it will serve.
I figured out that they are a service rendering platform, its worthy to note that service rendering platforms are very profitable both in the crypto and conventional world
Yep this is a fact which is why I think this is a project that has some very big potential because their in a position to offer a real platform for services to be developed on top of and as a basis to have expansive service offerings.
Thanks for the good write up, looks like this is going to be one to watch for me! Seems like it has a solid team behind it.
Yeah, it's among the projects in my watch list, I see great prospects here.
I never really take the time to think how much of my every day life relies on IoT technology, With every new device that comes along with its own programming language behind it, if Ruff OS can be the standard it would rapidly increase development time. Interesting!
I think we will be looking at more innovations on this field given the infrastructure would be something like a plug and play solution.
Plug and play for sure. I'm sure we'll see some great innovations coming out in the future built upon the Ruff OS
After reading this article I also noticed that I am already using more than couple of IoT devices on daily basis
The project does outline some scary facts about IoT and the reality of how vulnerable we all are with the amount of IoT devices people actually use
Thank you! Nice to see a quote from RFID Journal in this article. Almost 20 years passed and we still are just dreaming about high-grade Internet of things concept. Let's hope Ruff will bring the fresh breath of air in this movement.
Yep it seems it’s been coming for what feels like forever I’m hopeful that ipv6 and blockchain are what we were waiting for from tech to actually take things to the next level but time will tell I suppose going forward
Nice article. Nicely explained about importance of IOT in our life as well as problems and their solutions.
IoT is a massive part of our everyday lives and it will become even more so in the future.