https://innovationhub.innogy.com/news-event/3lj6DX6LS0C4SyKmgEOiQq/meet-our-future-customers--machines-with-wallets
- "The innogy Innovation Hub is exploring a new technology called IOTA that goes far beyond one-dimensional blockchain. With a completely new architecture based on cryptographically secure machine identities and a “tangle” protocol layer for validating transactions, IOTA is a key enabler for the ‘Machine Economy’. In simple terms, it means that machines can have their own wallets and transact automatically with other machines. And as a result, new machine-centred business models are rapidly emerging."

-"The innogy Innovation Hub is now moving into a joint project partnership for prototyping and testing initial use cases with the aim of monetizing new forms of value exchange in the ‘Machine Economy’. We see IOTA driving exciting data-driven business models in energy management, supply chain management, mobility logistics telematics, health care telematics, environmental observation, security and telecommunication networks. Our first Machine Economy prototypes will be ready in Spring 2017."



https://medium.com/iotatangle/automating-machine-transactions-and-building-trust-in-the-4th-industrial-revolution-d3219a157396#.u1zes9v6z
- "The IOTA Tangle is designed less rigorously, enabling the network to build clusters and even make transactions in an offline environment. This is key in mimicking the Internet of Things (IoT), where devices use different networking protocols (e.g. ZigBee, Bluetooth LE, LPWAN, Lemonbeat, etc.)."