Blockchain Applications in Smart City: A Survey

Smart cities bring new ideas to solve the social, economic, and environmental problems existing in traditional cities. However, the services of smart cities suffer from centralized data storage and untrustworthiness. As a decentralized distributed database, blockchain provides distributed and trusted infrastructure technology for the construction of smart cities. In this survey, we conduct a brief survey of the literature on blockchain applications in smart cities. We review the application of blockchain in smart cities from the four main application scenarios of energy, transportation, medical care, and manufacturing. Then, we discuss the realization of blockchain-based smart cities from the perspectives of privacy and storage. We believe this survey provides new ideas for the development of smart cities.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFB2701300), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2020ZD01).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China Shuo Wang, Zhiqi Lei, Zijun Wang & Keke Gai
  2. Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China Shuo Wang, Zhiqi Lei & Keke Gai
  3. School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China Dongjue Wang
  4. Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266400, China Mohan Wang
  5. School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, China Gangqiang Yang
  1. Shuo Wang