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Blockchain for Smart Cities

  • 1st Edition - August 25, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Saravanan Krishnan, Valentina Emilia Balas, E. Golden Julie, Harold Robinson Yesudhas, Raghvendra Kumar
  • Language: English

Focusing on different tools, platforms, and techniques, Blockchain and the Smart City: Infrastructure and Implementation uses case studies from around the world to examine blockc… Read more

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Description

Focusing 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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Smart city academic researchers, scholars and graduate students. City planners and policymakers

Table of contents

1. Smart cities with blockchain technology: a comprehensive survey

2. Future of Sustainable Smart Cities: an insight

3. Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for smart transportation in smart cities using blockchain architecture

4. Blockchain architecture for intelligent water management system in smart cities

5. Blockchain-based energy-efficient smart green city in IoT environments

6. Applications of blockchain in smart cities: detecting fake documents from land records using blockchain technology

7. Citizen e-governance using blockchain

8. Cloud/edge computing for smart cities

9. Waste management in smart cities using blockchaining technology

10. Introduction to blockchain and distributed systemsdfundamental theories and concepts

11. Blockchain for green smart cities

12. A novel Blockchain-based Access Control Manager to Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

13. Application of blockchain in automotive industry, waste management, and seed traceability

14. Blockchain-based health care monitoring for privacy preservation of COVID-19 medical records

15. A reliable blockchain and edgeecloud architecture for facilitating fault-tolerant IoT applications

16. Applications of blockchain technology for smart cities in a nutshell

17. Standards and Protocols of Blockchain

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 25, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

SK

Saravanan Krishnan

Dr.K.Saravanan, is working as an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai-25, Tamilnadu. He is also Deputy Director for Centre for University-Industry Collaboration (CUIC), Anna University, Chennai. He has done M.E Software Engineering and Ph.D in Computer Science engineering. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, Internet of Things, Smart cities. He has published papers in 17 international conferences and 39 international journals. He has also written 29 book chapters and edited 18 books with international publishers. He has done many consultancy works for Municipal Corporation and Smart City schemes with the tune of Rs.1 Crore. He is an active researcher and academician. Also, he is reviewer for many reputed journals in Elsevier, IEEE etc. He is Fellow of IEI and senior member of ACM and ISTE. Also, a member of many associations.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai-25, Tamilnadu.

VE

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
Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Arad, Romania Academy of Romanian Scientists, Romania

EJ

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, India

HY

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, India

RK

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, India

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