Slock.it – Combining Ethereum-Based Smart Contracts with IoT Devices

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Stephan Tual, founder of Slock.it, talks about Ethereum-Based Smart Contracts that allow IoT devices, (such as door locks on Air BnB apartments) to be fully automated – unlocked and locked based on rules, such as when a rental payment is received for an apartment (unlocked) and 5 minutes after checkout time (locked). Other use cases are: electric charging stations that can be rented on demand, charging monitored remotely, and repaired if a signal showing malfunction is received.
Slock.it has recently received $2 million in funding and is poised for fast growth. Listen, subscribe, and rate Future Tech Podcast, and enjoy this fascinating interview!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
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0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with FutureTech Podcast.
0:29.0	Today I have a long anticipated guest Stephen 12 from Sloc. IT, SLOK that IT. And we're going to be talking
0:38.9	about smart contracts and perhaps some internet of things type applications.
0:43.4	Stephen, how you doing?
0:44.4	I'm good, thank you very much, Richard.
0:46.1	Yeah, thanks for being tenacious and taking the time to come.
0:49.9	So, you need tell listeners what Slack that IT does?
0:53.0	Sure, in a nutshell, what we're building is a sharing economy platform for customer discovery,
1:00.0	leveraging blockchain at its core.
1:03.0	So in a very high level description of it
1:06.5	would be being able to rent, sell, or share
1:09.7	just about anything that can be connected
1:12.1	to the blockchain without almost any intermediary or something
1:16.0	less intermediary than we have today.
1:18.9	So when you say rent or share, you talking about equipment, or you talking about renting a home?
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