ECO-FRIENDLY BLOCKCHAIN FOR SMART CITIES

Abstract

The term “smart city” denotes a complete idea to relieve pending issues of cutting-edge city regions that have advanced into a crucial painting subject for practitioners and pupils alike. However, the query stays as to how towns can become “clever.” The software of the records era is normally taken into consideration as a key motive force withinside the “smartization” of towns. Detailed frameworks and techniques are consequently having to manual, operationalize, and degree the implementation manner in addition to the effect of the respective technology. This chapter discusses about blockchain era, a unique motive force of technological transformation that contains a mess of underlying technology and protocols, and its capability effect on clever towns. The chapter deals with the query of ways the blockchain era may also advantage the improvement of city regions. Based on a complete literature review, we gift a framework and study propositions. Nine software fields of a blockchain era withinside the smartization of towns: (1) healthcare, (2) logistics and deliver chains, (3) mobility, (4) energy, (5) management and services, (6) e-voting, (7) factory, (8) domestic, and (9) education are discussed. Contemporary-day tendencies in those fields illustrate how they're laid low with the blockchain era and derive propositions to manual destiny studies’ endeavors. Further sections of the chapter are well organized as follows. Section 1 is the introductory part of the eco-friendly blockchain technology for smart cities. Section 2 reflects types of blockchain executions and some common consent algorithms. Section 3 illustrates the benefits of blockchain combination with smart cities and reconnoiters ways it plays an essential role in creating and benefitting smart cities. Fifteen benefits of smart cities with blockchain are discussed in Section 4. Section 5 defends how blockchain is eco-friendly, and finally, Section 6 summarizes and concludes all sections. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.