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Blockchain Empowered Smart Home: A Scalable Architecture for Sustainable Smart Cities

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  • Abdulaziz Aldribi

    (Department of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah P.O. Box 52571, Saudi Arabia)

  • Aman Singh

    (Prince Faisal bin Mishaal Artificial Intelligence Chair, Qassim University, Buraydah P.O. Box 52571, Saudi Arabia
    Higher Polytechnic School, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, C/Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain
    Department of Project Management, Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana, Campeche C.P. 24560, Mexico)

Abstract

Emerging growth in technology has rapidly changed our homes and cities. Present homes and cities will be upgraded to smart homes and smart cities in the near future. Various solutions used to build the smart-city network demand a scalable and decentralized solution. This study proposes a blockchain-empowered decentralized and scalable solution for a sustainable smart-city network. The Internet of Things (IoT), fog nodes, permissioned trust chain, smart contract, blockchain, and InterPlanetary file system (IPFS) are deployed to construct a scalable and decentralized solution for a sustainable smart city. Three main public sector departments, i.e., electricity, water supply, and health care, are studied over the proposed solution. The proposed solution is implemented over constrained application protocol (CoAP) and Ethereum blockchain. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated for 1500 devices and over 10,000 records. A total 77.44% improvement is registered during performance evaluation over a scalable environment. The performance evaluation of each case study and collaborative performance evaluation concludes the improvised performance of the proposed solution for scalable and distributed applications. Better performance, scalability, and the distributed nature of the presented model make it suitable for the sustainable smart-city network.

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  • Abdulaziz Aldribi & Aman Singh, 2022. "Blockchain Empowered Smart Home: A Scalable Architecture for Sustainable Smart Cities," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(14), pages 1-22, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:10:y:2022:i:14:p:2378-:d:857318
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