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

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...

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Autores principales: Alcarria, Ramon, Bordel, Borja, Robles, Tomás, Martín, Diego, Manso-Callejo, Miguel-Ángel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30347844
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103561
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author Alcarria, Ramon
Bordel, Borja
Robles, Tomás
Martín, Diego
Manso-Callejo, Miguel-Ángel
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-62100772018-11-02 A Blockchain-Based Authorization System for Trustworthy Resource Monitoring and Trading in Smart Communities Alcarria, Ramon Bordel, Borja Robles, Tomás Martín, Diego Manso-Callejo, Miguel-Ángel Sensors (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2018-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6210077/ /pubmed/30347844 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103561 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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