Blockchain Technology for Smart Cities

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of the development of smart cities from a secure, trusted, and reliable data transmission perspective. It presents theoretical concepts and empirical studies, as well as examples of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions offer a panorama of the most important aspects of smart city evolution and implementation within various frameworks, such as healthcare, education, and transportation. Comparing current advanced applications and best practices, the book subsequently explores how smart environments and programs could help improve the quality of life in urban spaces and promote cultural and economic development.

Auteur

Dhananjay Singh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering and Director of the ReSENSE Lab at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul. He is also Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at MtoV & Vestella, South Korea. He received his M. Tech. in IT with a specialization in Wireless Communication & Computing from the IIIT-Allahabad, India, and his Ph.D. in Ubiquitous IT from Dongseo University (DSU), Busan, South Korea. He has three books, seven book chapters, and seven patents to his credit, and has delivered more than 50 invited/keynote talks at major IEEE, ACM, and Springer conferences. He is the author of over 100 reviewed articles and serves as an editor for five journals. His current research interests are in IoT/WSN, smart cities, blockchain technologies, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and cognitive computing. Navin Singh Rajput is an Associate Professor of Electronics Engineering at the IIT (BHU), Varanasi, and holds a Ph.D. in Neural Processing Systems from the same university. His main area of interest concerns the applications of neural networks and artificial intelligence in communication and computational networks. He has recently established an R&D and Technology Extension Laboratory for Networked Communication and Computation (NCCL) at the IIT (BHU), which hosts institute-level IT services such as advanced proxies, academic automation servers, HPC clusters using Hadoop, and the Sun Grid Engine. His additional research interests include IoT, cyber security, cloud computing, smart cities, and machine learning.

Contenu

Section 1- Blockchain Technology for Smart cities

1. Introduction of Smart Cities

Overview, History Characteristics Challenges Technologies, Standards, and Driving Factors 2. Introduction of Blockchain Technology

Overview, Perspective, Current Status, Scope and Future

3. Blockchain based Smart Cities: Structure, Design, and Use Cases

Overview, Requirements (Need) of Blockchain technology for smart Cities Use cases of Blockchain Technology for Smart City, Role of Blockchain technology in Smart cities, Impact of Blockchain Technology in Smart cities

Section -2 Smart Cities Applications using Blockchain Technology

4. Reliable Intelligent healthcare System for Smart City

a. Overview, Current Healthcare system, Challenges of Healthcare System, Role of Blockchain in Healthcare system for smart city, Blockchain based Secure trusted environment for Healthcare system,

5. Secure Trusted Model for Smart City Transportation System

a. Overview, Current ITS system, Challenges of ITS System in Smart City, Role of Blockchain in ITS for smart city, Blockchain based Secure trusted environment for ITS, Future Impact & Prospective , Summary

6. Disseminate Self-Governing Organization

Overview, Issues of Autonomous Organization, Role of Blockchain Technology, Blockchain technology for Autonomous Organization (Govt/Public/Private)

7. Smart City Education system with Blockchain Technology

Introduction Current Education Systems, Pros & Cons of Currents Education System, Smart Education system using Blockchain Technology, Future Impact & Prospective

8. Decentralized Distributed Insurance for Smart living

Introduction of insurance in Smart living, Current Insurance Scenario, Pros & Cons of Insurance System, Blockchain technology based Smart insurance System,

9. Distributed Smart Real Estate

a. Current Scenario of Real Estate, Pros/Cons , Scope of Real Estate, Blockchain Based Real Estate , Future Impact & Prospective , Summary

10. Supply Chain Management

a. Introduction of Supply Chain Management (SCM), Current Environment of SCM, Blockchain Technology for SCM in Smart City Environment

11. Sustainable Green Technology Overview, Current Sustainable Green Technology Smart City, Impact & challenges of sustainable Green Technology for Smart cities, Strategy for Sustainable Green Technology, Blockchain based Sustainable Green Technology for Smart City