Introduction

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We hope everyone is well and enjoying this season, we welcome you to this 4th week of Steemit Engagement Challenge. We are coming to the end of this 6th season and in this week we want you to tell us what you think about the internet of things (IoT) and blockchain and expand your knowledge concerning this topic. --- ![Screenshot_2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZxswpy6Hy1pMDqGedRyiKHGUSN5ZfrJpP6LoLYMzLJ5q/Screenshot_2.png)

Contest theme: Internet of Things and the Blockchain

The IoT has caused a great impact on the daily life of each of us, as its name suggests is to connect objects or devices to an internet network, there is a communication or connection between them. Currently there are televisions, refrigerators, sound devices, hairbrushes and others that work interconnected to an internet network. You can connect the lights in your house, so that wherever you are you can command to turn off or turn on certain amounts of lights in your home. Now joining these two technologies, IoT with the blockchain, it offers greater power, where processes can be automated, giving security and integrity to these processes. The blockchain is a technology that offers multiple benefits to the IoT. --- ![Screenshot_2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZxswpy6Hy1pMDqGedRyiKHGUSN5ZfrJpP6LoLYMzLJ5q/Screenshot_2.png)

What is the expectation of this challenge?

- Explain in your own words, what is IoT? - What impact does the blockchain have on the Internet of Things? - What benefits does blockchain offer to the Internet of Things? - Explain two applications of IoT and blockchain. - Explain a blockchain project that relates to IoT. --- ![Screenshot_2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZxswpy6Hy1pMDqGedRyiKHGUSN5ZfrJpP6LoLYMzLJ5q/Screenshot_2.png)

Contest Guidelines

- Post your articles in the Steemit Crypto Academy community. The participation time is between Monday, December 12th, 2022, 00:00 UTC to Sunday, December 18th, 2022, 23:59 UTC. - The article should be at a minimum of 500 words. You can write more. Your article must be free of any form of plagiarism. - Your article title should be Steemit Crypto Academy Contest / S6W4 - Internet of Things and the Blockchain . Add the tag #cryptoacademy-s6w4 and other relevant tags. - Participants must be appropriately following #club5050 or #club75 or #club100. - Participants must be verified and active users on the platform. - The community moderators would be leaving quality assessments on your articles and probable upvotes. - In addition, your article must get at least 10 upvotes and 5 valid comments to count as valid in the contest, so ensure you interact with other users' entries. Do not be involved in vote-buying.

Rewards

- SC01 would be checking on the entire 7 participating communities and upvoting outstanding content. Upvote is not guaranteed for all articles. Kindly take note. - At the end of the week, we would nominate top 3 users that had performed well in the contest and they would be eligible for votes from SC01/SC02.

Important Notice: The nomination of the top 3 users in our community is not based on good grades alone, it includes their general engagements (quality and quantity of their interactions with other users' articles) to measure the overall performance. Also note that generally, you can only make one post per day in the Steemit Engagement Challenge. --- ![Screenshot_2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZxswpy6Hy1pMDqGedRyiKHGUSN5ZfrJpP6LoLYMzLJ5q/Screenshot_2.png)

Conclusion

Every day the Internet of Things and Blockchain cause an impact on the daily life of human beings, in the future these two technologies may come to technologically empower a large part of the world's population. In the coming years we will see what happens with these technologies.