Blockchain for Smart Cities

Focusing on different tools, platforms, and techniques, Blockchain and the Smart City: Infrastructure and Implementation uses case studies from around the world to examine blockchain deployment in diverse smart city applications. The book begins by examining the fundamental theories and concepts of blockchain. It looks at key smart cities? domains such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and supply chain management. It examines Using case studies for each domain, the book looks at payment mechanisms, fog/edge computing, green computing, and algorithms and consensus mechanisms for smart cities implementation. It looks at tools such as Hyperledger, Etherium, Corda, IBM Blockchain, Hydrachain, as well as policies and regulatory standards, applications, solutions, and methodologies. While exploring future blockchain ecosystems for smart and sustainable city life, the book concludes with the research challenges and opportunities academics, researchers, and companies in implementing blockchain applications.

1. Smart cities with blockchain technology: a comprehensive survey
2. Future of Sustainable Smart Cities: an insight
3. Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for smart transportation in smart cities using blockchain architecture
4. Blockchain architecture for intelligent water management system in smart cities
5. Blockchain-based energy-efficient smart green city in IoT environments
6. Applications of blockchain in smart cities: detecting fake documents from land records using blockchain technology
7. Citizen e-governance using blockchain
8. Cloud/edge computing for smart cities
9. Waste management in smart cities using blockchaining technology
10. Introduction to blockchain and distributed systemsdfundamental theories and concepts
11. Blockchain for green smart cities
12. A novel Blockchain-based Access Control Manager to Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
13. Application of blockchain in automotive industry, waste management, and seed traceability
14. Blockchain-based health care monitoring for privacy preservation of COVID-19 medical records
15. A reliable blockchain and edgeecloud architecture for facilitating fault-tolerant IoT applications
16. Applications of blockchain technology for smart cities in a nutshell
17. Standards and Protocols of Blockchain

Saravanan Krishnan is working as a Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University, Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has done ME in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science Engineering. His research interests include cloud computing, software engineering, Internet of Things, and smart cities. He has published research papers in 14 international conferences and 27 international journals. He has also written 9 book chapters and 5 books with international publishers. He has done consultancy work for Municipal Corporation and Smart City schemes.
Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses.
E.Golden Julie is currently working as a Senior Assistant Professor in the department of computer science and Engineering, Anna university, Regional campus, Tirunelveli. She has received Ph.D degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2017. She has more than 13 years of experience in teaching and has published more than 35 papers in various International Journals and presented more than 20 papers in both national and International Conferences. She has written 10 book chapters by Springer, IGI global Publication. Her research area includes Wireless Sensor Ad-hoc Networks, Soft computing, block chain, fuzzy logic, neural network, soft com