Streamr

If you own a car, go take a good look at it. You own the tires, the steering wheel, the engine. But in the near future who will own the data that your car creates each second? You? Or a corporation?

Your automobile will soon be producing data about congestion, road quality, and mechanical feedback. If you choose, this can all be sold to highways agencies, fellow drivers, parts manufacturers, and smart city operators who can use it to make automated road repairs, schedule maintenance and redirect traffic in realtime.

In turn, your car will need data to operate in a smart city. Each day your vehicle will want to steer clear of traffic, find the best electricity prices at the closest charging stations, avoid potholes, and glean information from the hundreds of IoT sensors it will pass.

Streamr is making these data streams tradeable. We provide a single interface for realtime data delivery and payment, using our cryptographic token, $DATA. So, if you choose, your car can sell the information it produces and buy back the information it needs. And it all happens automatically.

A realtime data economy is born.

A blockchain everyone can trust. While the Streamr system is blockchain agnostic, the first supported blockchain and smart contracting platform will be Ethereum. Streamr Network nodes will regularly interact with the Ethereum blockchain. Our analytics Engine can also deploy and read Ethereum smart contracts as well as send transactions onto the blockchain.