Blockchain for Smart Cities
- 1st Edition - August 25, 2021
- Editors: Saravanan Krishnan, Valentina Emilia Balas, E. Golden Julie, Harold Robinson Yesudhas, Raghvendra Kumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 4 4 6 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 9 8 8 - 2
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Request a sales quoteFocusing on different tools, platforms, and techniques, Blockchain and the Smart City: Infrastructure and Implementation uses case studies from around the world to examine blockchain deployment in diverse smart city applications. The book begins by examining the fundamental theories and concepts of blockchain. It looks at key smart cities’ domains such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and supply chain management. It examines Using case studies for each domain, the book looks at payment mechanisms, fog/edge computing, green computing, and algorithms and consensus mechanisms for smart cities implementation. It looks at tools such as Hyperledger, Etherium, Corda, IBM Blockchain, Hydrachain, as well as policies and regulatory standards, applications, solutions, and methodologies. While exploring future blockchain ecosystems for smart and sustainable city life, the book concludes with the research challenges and opportunities academics, researchers, and companies in implementing blockchain applications.
- Independently organized chapters for greater readability, adaptability, and flexibility
- Examines numerous issues from multiple perspectives and academic and industry experts
- Explores both advances and challenges of cutting-edge technologies
- Coverage of security, trust, and privacy issues in smart cities
Smart city academic researchers, scholars and graduate students. City planners and policymakers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Biographies
- Chapter 1. Smart cities with blockchain technology: a comprehensive survey
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related work
- 3. Permissioned and permissionless blockchain in the smart city environment
- 4. Applications of blockchain technology in smart cities
- 5. Case studies
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Future of Sustainable Smart Cities: an insight
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Characteristics and technologies used in SSC
- 3. Future of IoT and Blockchain and its impact on the various sectors of smart cities
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for smart transportation in smart cities using blockchain architecture
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related works
- 3. Proposed system
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Blockchain architecture for intelligent water management system in smart cities
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Blockchain in water management
- 3. Proposed system
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Blockchain-based energy-efficient smart green city in IoT environments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related works
- 3. Proposed system
- 4. Domestic wastes collection and management
- 5. Overview of proposed architecture design
- 6. Results and discussion
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Applications of blockchain in smart cities: detecting fake documents from land records using blockchain technology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related survey
- 3. Existing land registration framework
- 4. Proposed framework
- 5. Implementation
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Citizen e-governance using blockchain
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Use cases
- 3. Considerations involved in implementation
- 4. Case studies
- 5. Summary
- Chapter 8. Cloud/edge computing for smart cities
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Characteristics
- 3. Frameworks
- 4. Existing system
- 5. Infrastructure architecture
- 6. Smart city challenges and concerns
- 7. Why do we need smart cities?
- 8. Applications of edge computing
- 9. Features of edge computing
- 10. How edge computing making cities smarter and better
- 11. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Waste management in smart cities using blockchaining technology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Objective
- 3. Proposed work
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Introduction to blockchain and distributed systems—fundamental theories and concepts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature review
- 3. Blockchain concepts
- 4. Blockchain taxomony
- 5. Applications of blockchain
- 6. Challenges of blockchain
- 7. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Blockchain for green smart cities
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Green smart city
- 3. Blockchain technology
- 4. Characteristics of blockchain to develop smart city
- 5. Smart city application integrated with blockchain
- 6. Conclusion and future directions
- Chapter 12. A novel Blockchain-based Access Control Manager to Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related work
- 3. Blockchain as an Access Control Manager for EHRs
- 4. Access Control Policies
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 13. Application of blockchain in automotive industry, waste management, and seed traceability
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature review
- 3. Blockchain in the automotive industry
- 4. System model
- 5. Blockchain in waste management
- 6. Seed traceability using smart contracts
- 7. Electronic voting system
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 14. Blockchain-based health care monitoring for privacy preservation of COVID-19 medical records
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background and related works
- 3. Blockchain taxonomy
- 4. Proposed work
- 5. Efficiency of proposed model
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 15. A reliable blockchain and edge–cloud architecture for facilitating fault-tolerant IoT applications
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Related work
- 3. Reliable blockchain and edge–cloud architecture for facilitating fault-tolerant IoT applications
- 4. Simulation results and discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 16. Applications of blockchain technology for smart cities in a nutshell
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Application of blockchain technology in smart cities
- 3. Conclusion
- Chapter 17. Standards and Protocols of Blockchain
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Standards of Blockchain
- 3. Protocols of Blockchain
- 4. Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128244463
- eBook ISBN: 9780323859882
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Saravanan Krishnan
Saravanan Krishnan is working as a Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has done ME in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science Engineering. His research interests include cloud computing, software engineering, Internet of Things, and smart cities. He has published research papers in 14 international conferences and 27 international journals. He has also written 9 book chapters and 5 books with international publishers. He has done consultancy work for Municipal Corporation and Smart City schemes.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, TamilnaduVE
Valentina Emilia Balas
Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, Arad, RomaniaEJ
E. Golden Julie
E.Golden Julie is currently working as a Senior Assistant Professor in the department of computer science and Engineering, Anna university, Regional campus, Tirunelveli. She has received Ph.D degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2017. She has more than 13 years of experience in teaching and has published more than 35 papers in various International Journals and presented more than 20 papers in both national and International Conferences. She has written 10 book chapters by Springer, IGI global Publication. Her research area includes Wireless Sensor Ad-hoc Networks, Soft computing, block chain, fuzzy logic, neural network, soft computing techniques, clustering and IoT. She is also an active life time member in Indian Society of Technical Education.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of CSE, Regional campus, Anna University, Tirunelveli, IndiaHY
Harold Robinson Yesudhas
Dr. Y. Harold Robinson is currently working in the School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. He has received Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2016. He is having more than 15 years of experience in teaching. He has published more than 100 papers in various International Journals and presented more than 45 papers in both national and International Conferences. He is acting as an editor for many research books. His research area includes Wireless Sensor Networks, Ad-hoc Networks ,Soft computing, blockchain, IoT and Image Processing.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Informaiton Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, IndiaRK
Raghvendra Kumar
Raghvendra Kumar is working as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at GIET University, India. He received BTech, MTech, and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, India, and Postdoc Fellow from the Institute of Information Technology, Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Vietnam. He has published a number of research papers in international journals and conferences. His research areas are computer networks, data mining, cloud computing, and secure multiparty computations, theory of computer science, and design of algorithms. He authored and edited 23 computer science books in field of IoT, data mining, and biomedical engineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GIET University, IndiaRead Blockchain for Smart Cities on ScienceDirect