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Blockchain for smart cities: A review of architectures, integration trends and future research directions

Bhushan, Bharat, Khamparia, Aditya, Sagayam, K. Martin, Sharma, Sudhir Kumar, Ahad, Mohd Abdul, Debnath, Narayan C.·2020·Sustainable Cities and Society

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Abstract In recent years, smart city has emerged as a new paradigm to provide high quality facilities to the citizens by dynamically optimising the city resources. Smart cities can offer finest services for boosting the daily life of citizens on healthcare, transportation, energy consumption, and education. However, the concept of smart city is still evolving and despite its potential vision, there are proliferating security challenges. Blockchain has the potential to promote the development of smart cities owing to its good properties such as auditability, transparency, immutability and decentralization. Therefore, this paper presents the state-of-the-art blockchain technology to solve the security issues of smart cities. Initially, the paper throws light on the background knowledge and then surveys the utility of blockchain in various smart communities such as healthcare, transportation, smart grid, supply chain management, financial systems and data center networks. Finally, some future research directions are identified through extensive literature survey on blockchain based smart city systems.

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Authors
Bhushan, B., Khamparia, A., Sagayam, K. M., Sharma, S. K., Ahad, M. A., & Debnath, N. C.
Affiliations
  • Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (IN)
  • Lovely Professional University (IN)
  • Karunya University (IN)
  • Jamia Hamdard (IN)
  • Eastern International University (VN)
Corresponding author
Bhushan, Bharat
Venue
Sustainable Cities and Society
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-10
Volume
61
Pages
102360
ISSN
2210-6707 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3040649972
Cited by
353
References
232
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 69 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 78 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 11
FWCI
50.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Sustainable Cities and Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
Keywords
blockchain, smart cities, smart city security, blockchain architecture, health care, transportation, smart grid, supply chain management, financial system, data center networks, decentralization (distributed systems), immutability, transparency

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