Title
Toward a Trustless Smart City: the #SmartME Experience
Abstract
A Smart City is an example of a domain where citizens and institutions, at any level, should be empowered by actually decentralizing any mechanism and process that can escape single-authority control and the grip of centrally-managed bureaucracies, while at the same time not relying on any single party trusting any other. In line with this key insight, in this paper, we have designed and implemented a decentralized, trustless system for (environmental) sensing data acquisition, storage, and consumption, in the context of a real-world Smart City deployment and with the participation of independent, institutional, stakeholders. This Open Data system has been extended with an end-user wizard for user-friendly and trustless (i.e., independent) data audit. The acquisition layer requires nodes to authenticate when sending readings. Last but not least, the storage layer is again trustless, as institutions can pool together their resources, without trusting one another, nor entrusting the administration of the system to any third party.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/WETICE.2019.00051
2019 IEEE 28th International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Smart City,Decentralization,Blockchain,Trustless,Consensus,Open Data
Open data,Decentralization,Audit,Software deployment,Authentication,Computer security,Computer science,Knowledge management,Smart city,Wizard,Bureaucracy
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1524-4547
978-1-7281-0677-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abhinav Khare100.68
Giovanni Merlino220828.11
Francesco Longo339034.61
Antonio Puliafito41562145.29
Om Prakash Vyas5528.92