A Blockchain-Based Authorization System for Trustworthy Resource Monitoring and Trading in Smart Communities

Sensors

Ramon Alcarria¹  Miguel-Ángel Manso-Callejo¹  Borja Bordel²  Tomás Robles²  Diego Martín² 

[1] Departamento de Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM Campus Sur, Km 7.5 de la Autovía de Valencia, 28031 Madrid, Spain;Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida Complutense no. 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain;

关键词: resource monitoring;    prosumer;    blockchain;    trading;    resource auction;    smart communities;    power consumption;    water consumption;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s18103561

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Resource consumption in residential areas requires novel contributions in the field of consumer information management and collaborative mechanisms for the exchange of resources, in order to optimize the overall consumption of the community. We propose an authorization system to facilitate access to consumer information and resource trading, based on blockchain technology. Our proposal is oriented to the Smart communities, an evolution of Community Energy Management Systems, in which communities are involved in the monitoring and coordination of resource consumption. The proposed environment allows a more reliable management of monitoring and authorization functions, with secure data access and storage and delegation of controller functions among householders. We provide the definition of virtual assets for energy and water resource sharing as an auction, which encourages the optimization of global consumption and saves resources. The proposed solution is implemented and validated in application scenarios that demonstrate the suitability of the defined consensus mechanism, trustworthiness in the level of provided security for resource monitoring and delegation and reduction on resource consumption by the resource trading contribution.

【 授权许可】

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