Blockchain-Powered Sensing for IoT and Smart Systems
A Special Issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) belonging to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2027 | Viewed by 498
Editors
2. School of Computing Science and Engineering, Sharda University, Greater Noida 201310, India
Interests: artificial intelligence; blockchain technology; cybersecurity; cyber–physical systems
Interests: ad hoc networks; network tomography; connected vehicles; wireless sensor networks
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Dear Colleagues,
With the dynamic expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and other smart technologies, there has been a huge development in sensor networks around the globe in various sectors, including smart cities, healthcare, transportation systems, industries, agriculture, energy sectors, etc., which generate enormous amounts of data that are crucial for monitoring real-time operations. However, simultaneously, there have been important issues in sensor networks that threaten data security, trust, and privacy, as traditional centralized data management cannot ensure transparency in these situations. Thus, blockchain technology presents itself as a promising antidote to such challenges by relying on decentralized trust, tamper-proof storage, and transparent transaction ledgers. By combining it with IoT sensors and networks, secure data sharing, cyber-resilient architecture, and autonomous operation modes using smart contracts become possible. Recent technological breakthroughs in lightweight consensus techniques, edge and fog computing, and scalable distributed ledgers have now enabled the fusion of blockchain with sensors. Finally, the fusion of blockchain with sensors acts as a cornerstone in building trusted smart systems based on reliability, accountability, and security.
This Special Issue invites cutting-edge research, innovations, and real-world applications in blockchain-enabled sensing for IoT and smart environments. It aims to unite researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders in exploring the interplay of sensing technologies, blockchain, and intelligent systems. We encourage submissions spanning theoretical advances, system prototypes, empirical studies, and deployments—whether full research papers or comprehensive reviews. All contributions should advance secure, scalable, and dependable sensor-driven solutions.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Blockchain-based designs for sensor networks, IoT systems;
- Secure and trusted data acquisition, storage, and sharing in a sensor-enabled environment;
- Smart contracts: autonomous sensing, access control, and data monetization;
- Lightweight blockchain methods for devices with limited resources like sensors;
- Integrating blockchain technology with edge, fog, and cloud-assisted sensing systems;
- Privacy-preserving sensing, secure data provenance methods;
- Blockchain-based applications in smart cities, healthcare, industrial IoT, and environmental monitoring;
- Challenges in performance evaluation, scalability, and interoperability of blockchain-based sensing applications;
- AI and ML-based blockchain solutions for smart management of sensor data.
This Special Issue seeks to provide a timely platform for improving security and intelligent sensing systems. It encourages collaboration across disciplines and outlines future research directions for blockchain-enabled IoT systems and smart systems.
Dr. Rizwan Patan
Dr. Mohammad Khan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blockchain-powered sensing
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- sensor networks
- distributed ledger technology
- secure data sharing
- data integrity and provenance
- smart contracts
- edge and fog computing
- privacy-preserving sensing
- smart systems
- cyber–physical systems
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