A Microservice-enabled Architecture for Smart Surveillance using Blockchain Technology
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While the smart surveillance system enhanced by the Internet of Things (IoT) technology becomes an essential part of Smart Cities, it also brings new concerns in security of the data. Compared to the traditional surveillance systems that is built following a monolithic architecture to carry out lower level operations, such as monitoring and recording, the modern surveillance systems are expected to support more scalable and decentralized solutions for advanced video stream analysis at the large volumes of distributed edge devices. In addition, the centralized architecture of the conventional surveillance systems is vulnerable to single point of failure and privacy breach owning to the lack of protection to the surveillance feed. This position paper introduces a novel secure smart surveillance system based on microservices architecture and blockchain technology. Encapsulating the video analysis algorithms as various independent microservices not only isolates the video feed from different sectors, but also improve the system availability and robustness by decentralizing the operations. The blockchain technology securely synchronizes the video analysis databases among microservices across surveillance domains, and provides tamper proof of data in the trustless network environment. Smart contract enabled access authorization strategy prevents any unauthorized user from accessing the microservices and offers a scalable, decentralized and fine-grained access control solution for smart surveillance systems.
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This blockchain feature enables various secure and reliable operations without having a trusted party in the distributed system.
“This blockchain feature enables various secure and reliable operations without having a trusted party in the distributed system [64].”
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- Authors
- Nagothu, D., Xu, R., Nikouei, S. Y., & Chen, Y.
- Affiliations
- Binghamton University (US)
- Venue
- 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2018-09
- Pages
- 1-4
- OpenAlex
- W2886467254
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 11.58
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Keywords
- intelligent surveillance, microservices, blockchain, Internet of Things, smart cities, video stream analysis, edge devices, decentralized systems, data security, privacy, smart contracts, access control, tamper-proof data, single point of failure
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