Robonomics.network

## About the company

Robonomics Network is a network infrastructure, a set of open-source packages for the integration of cyber-physical systems into Robonomics, Smart Cities, and Industry 4.0 (the fourth industrial revolution).

The company's ideology is based on the concept of integrating computing power into physical objects, including biological and man-made objects. In cyber-physical systems, the computational component is distributed throughout the cyber-physical system that is its carrier and is synergistically linked to its constituent elements. In other words, the activity of the Robonomics Network is aimed at developing and developing futuristic systems of activity and management.

White Paper of the company says that global change of most production processes is expected in the near future due to the significant potential of robotic systems: they are able to adapt to a wide range of tasks, they are more effective in many types of operating activities, and they reduce time expenditures for the production. Robotization of production is growing: the world average number of robotic units per 10,000 employees of enterprises increased by 11% from 2015 to 2016. For example, only in Central and Eastern Europe in 2017 were equipped with 28% of robotic units more than in 2016. Most entrepreneurs see in robotics the possibility of increasing the efficiency of their production and compensating for the shortage of personnel.

Robonomics Network considers arranging the collaboration of autonomous cyber-physical systems as a single network based on market mechanisms. The network of control, distribution, and service delivery adapts to the needs of people through cyber-physical systems. The unified network is based on market mechanisms and accessible to end-users. it can be developed on the basis of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies. It enables the combination of the economic and technical parameters of the transaction to the machine. Creating such a P2P network can be carried out on the Ethereum blockchain. The launch of the Ethereum network made it possible to expand the possibilities of economically significant robot communication using smart contracts. Smart contracts now allow you to add technical details to a financial transaction to the machine. By extending the basic communication protocol’s capabilities, cyber-physical systems can be trained to interact with contractual obligations and market mechanisms.

Developing a platform that delivers tools for working with the network will allow creators of new projects and industrial zones to establish interaction between the services of autonomous systems, provide direct user access for ordering products from autonomous factories and services of urban networks. It will allow Robonomics to set up a decentralized system that will carry out international monitoring of the activities of cyber-physical systems.

The full-scale application of cyber-physical systems in production, logistics, and urban life will help to cope with the growing complexity of supply chains and provide high-quality products to customers. In this direction, one of the key issues is the organization of the joint work of many cyber-physical systems operating across the planet.

### Robonomics Network Platform

The company develops a platform that helps to organize a network of robot economics using existing technologies. Based on the results of the experiments carried out between 2015 and 2018, they propose using Ethereum as an infrastructure that provides the minimum necessary facilities for combining the technical and economic parameters of the machine’s liability to implement a behavioral model that is coordinated with the user. As part of the Robonomics platform consideration:

* expanding the capabilities of Ethereum in order for the market of CPSs behavioral models supply and demand to emerge;
* describing the Robonomics agents operating system as the interface of the Robot Operating System [16] compatible CPS to the robots economy network;
* giving examples of the Robonomics platform application for the implementation of the SDK developer of user dapp for Smart Cities and Industry 4.0.

Transactions are sent to the Ethereum Blockchain when supply meets demand in Robonomics, and they fully satisfy each other's conditions. In such cases, Robonomics creates a message for the Ethereum platform participants. This message contains the parameters needed in order to create a robot liability contract by the contracts factory.

### Robonomics Network Tokens

Robonomics Network will provide two payment options for your IoT devices. First is a transaction fee model with the predictable cost of function usage. The second model is a subscription. That model, under development right now and will perform a predictable high load to the network. Each payment model will have its token — transaction fee model, presented by XRT since 2018, and a subscription model will be presented by RWS token. One network with different protocol tokens is opening a new research topic — heterogeneous tokenomics in a decentralized network.

* XRT. The task of the Robonomics token is to ensure the operation of a decentralized network for the maintenance of Smart Cities and Industry 4.0 in the Ethereum infrastructure. In order to achieve this goal, the token economy needs to reflect the incentives for the implementation of the network's useful function by independent providers. These incentives should be distributed between the emission and the commission in such a way as to ensure the capacity of Robonomics in Ethereum depending on the price of XRT token as well as to motivate providers to run the Robonomics program in EVM with the data ordered by users. There is no need to motivate providers to finalize the implementation of the Robonomics program, taking into account the observing network or not. Any provider will happily finalize the implementation of the Robonomics program for the sake of the emission. Therefore, the CPS service users’ commission can only be used to pay for the verification of the results of the CPS behavioral model execution. XRT (Robonomics token) grants access to the Robonomics network with a transaction fee model. XRT presents this model in Ethereum mainnet and Robonomics Parachain testnet today (released in Ethereum mainnet since 2018, and in Robonomics Parachain testnet since Q2 2020).
* RWS is a subscription model. Robonomics architecture can be more sustainable with a subscription model as an alternative option. Subscriptions form a predictable high load. As a result of that, the network can be utilized with the best price for users.

It is expected that the Robonomics Parachain summer 2020 benchmarks will show results of 1,000 transactions per second (tps) with 6 sec block time — 6,000 transactions per block (last Gav tweet shows 1,500 tps). Based on that, the Robonomics network can propose up to 6,000 monthly subscriptions with one transaction per block. The limitation of using parachain only once per block is a crucial component of the proposed architecture and all benefits based on that limitation

### Heterogeneous tokenomics of the Robonomics Network

Robonomics will make both models (a transaction fee model and a subscription model) in the Robonomics network. The subscription model prevents unstable work for IoT devices, and the transaction fee model will grant access to the network without limitation in time and amount transactions per block. But in a resource race situation transactions from subscribers will be first.

In other cases, we will have a dilemma:

* Use only tx fee model, and users will sometimes be in a resource race situation. Long term users will be affected. Strike User friendly on a dashboard.
* Use only a subscription model, and lose on-demand usage for the network. 90% of ethereum users are unpredictable, they create a transaction once or twice a day and rarely go to 5–10 tx, in case they find something new. But they have been using Ethereum long enough and won’t stop using it. The value of the network will be much more if users will have access with a small payment in time [1].

### Robonomics Network Services

The official website of the Robonomics Network offers several services based on the company's solutions:

* DAO IPCI on Robonomics Substrate. In early 2020, the DAO IPCI open platform launched the “Public Blockchain for open sensors networks " program. This support program is aimed at training innovative technologies for employees of non-profit organizations involved in the fight against climate change and environmental pollution. Eco-activists will be trained to work with modern technologies of the Internet of things and use public blockchains to store data on air, soil, and water pollution in an open, independent, and unchangeable form. [2].
* Public blockchain stamp. Automatic recording of telemetry from automation in IPFS and saving the telemetry hash into the public blockchain create an immutable passport/product identification in offline mode.
* Fuji weather. A weather sensor at Mount Fuji works on the basis of sensor networks.
* Paying off the carbon footprint for a smart building. Automatic compensation for damage to nature when electricity is consumed from a generator, using carbon units transferred to the public Ethereum blockchain.
* Environmental assets tokenization. Service for the emission of carbon units and green certificates based on data from a renewable energy source.
* Drone passport registration. Service for the registration of drones, quadcopters.
* Drone flight report. A service that shows information about the flights of registered drones, quadcopters.
* Decentralized sensors network. The service of a decentralized sensor network indicates the concentration of fine particles in the atmosphere in real-time or in retrospect based on data stored in the blockchain. The sensors studied by the service are located in Tolyatti (4 sensors), Zelenograd (1 sensor), and Saint Petersburg (1 sensor).

## Application

### Robotics

Robotics is a science that deals with the development of automated technical systems and it is the most important technical basis for the development of production. Robotics includes such disciplines as electronics, mechanics, cybernetics, telemechanics, mechatronics, computer science, as well as radio and electrical engineering. There are construction, industrial, household, medical, aviation, and extreme (military, space, underwater) robotics.

### Smart Cities

Smart Cities - the concept of implementing multiple information and communication technologies and the Internet of things (IoT) solutions for managing urban property; the city's assets include, among others, local information systems departments, schools, libraries, transport, hospitals, power plants, water, and waste management systems, law enforcement agencies, and other public services. The goal of creating a "smart city" is to improve the quality of life with the help of urban information technology to improve the efficiency of service and meet the needs of residents. Examples of smart city technology and programs have been implemented in Milton Keynes, Southampton, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Moscow. An important cluster of smart cities technology companies exists in Israel, where tel Aviv was awarded “the World smart city” award in 2014.

### Industry 4.0

A potentially predicted event that presupposes a wide-scale introduction of cyber-physical systems in production, service, life, work, and leisure. It takes its name from a 2011 initiative led by businessmen, politicians, and scientists who identified it as a means of increasing the competitiveness of the German manufacturing industry through enhanced integration of cyber-physical systems into factory processes. The changes will cover a variety of aspects of life: the labor market, the living environment, political systems, technology, human identity, and others.

## Collaboration with Free TON

Robonomics Network is the primary validator of the TON network. Robonomics Network is already expanding to 2 decentralised computers, the company has been operating on top of the Ethereum network since 2018 and in test mode on top of Polkadot since 2020. The TON Blockchain will be the third platform for Robonomics Network.

## Links

1. Official website
2. Robonomics Network on Github
3. Robonomics Network on Twitter
4. Telegram chat
5. Youtube channel

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