Blockchain and IoT Enabled Sensing for Smart City
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 271
Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent developments in smart sensor technology have strongly facilitated the long-cherished vision to create a smarter society for the benefit of mankind. In the last decade, the world has witnessed exponential expansion and growth in the fields of information technology as well as social governance. Smart cities have thus emerged as a key enabler of development of a smarter society in due course of time. However, to reach the goals behind the required specifications to develop a smart city, novel sensors-enabled and intelligent network-based technology must be incorporated. Fortunately, the amalgamation of Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain can be seen as a possible way forward to develop the smart city concept into the reality through a stringent provisioning of decentralization, transparency, autonomy, and immutability. Successful conglomerations between IoT and blockchain have already started to show promising footprints to achieve this perspective. However, lack of knowledge and awareness about an appropriate juxtaposition of advanced technologies and design stacks have cornered researchers into a dilemma.
Thus, this Special Issue seeks good-quality original articles that aim to support the development process of smart city using smart sensors in better way, under the IoT and blockchain paradigm by solving (but not being limited to) the following key topics:
- Novel development of smart contacts in blockchain-IoT ecosystem for smart city;
- Development of blockchain-IoT enabled sensor networks for smart city;
- Provisioning of sensor enabled blockchain-IoT architecture for smart city governance;
- Deployment of IoT-based sensor-data management in smart cities;
- IoT-blockchain based management and harvesting of smart energy for smart cities;
- Integration of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for blockchain-driven IoT-sensor-enabled smart cities;
- Development of fog/edge/cloud/dew computing-based techniques catering to sensor-based IoT and blockchain ecosphere for smart cities;
- Leveraging prototypes or deployments in sensor-enabled smart healthcare services for smart citizens in a blockchain-driven IoT ecosystem;
- Use of low power wide area networks (LPWE) for deployment of smart contracts for smart sensor-based environment monitoring and control in smart cities in an IoT–blockchain scenario;
- Smart e-governance facilitation for leveraging citizen centric services, business applications, and social issues using blockchain and IoT-based sensor systems;
- Provisioning of 5G and Next Generation Internet (NGI) in the IoT–blockchain-assisted smart city;
- Monitoring of traffic, accidents, and disasters using sensors-enabled IoT–blockchain in smart cities;
- Implementation of tactile internet, internet of skills, and pervasive biomedical informatics for the betterment of smart citizens using sensors, IoT, and blockchain;
- Design of novel consensus algorithms, mathematical models, decentralized frameworks, and sensor-enabled platforms for smart cities;
- Development of novel cryptocurrencies for IoT–blockchain-enabled citizen-centric support using pervasive sensor systems.
Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Blockchain
- Distributed Ledger
- Internet of Things
- Smart Sensor
- Pervasive Sensor System
- Consensus
- Smart City
- Smart Infrastructure
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