Blockchain of Things for Securing and Managing Water 4.0 Applications

A. Y. Al-Zoubi, Mamoun Aldmour, Afif Khoury, Dana Al-Thaher
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The design of a smart water monitoring and control system in urban areas plays a pivotal role in providing efficient distribution mechanisms to reduce leakage, especially in regions facing water scarcity and limited resources. The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology to improve the system’s performance, enhance its security, and provide a decentralized and tamper-proof environment presents an excellent opportunity to evolve the system further and form a state-of-the-art Water 4.0 ecosystem. The proposed Blockchain of Things (BCoT) water system is introduced as a pilot to explore its potential in delivering and managing Water 4.0 applications. An Ethereum platform formed the heart of the BCoT system, while a Raspberry Pi 4 acted as a node to the blockchain that collected data from various sensors and microcontrollers via MQTT programmed by Node-Red. LabVIEW software also provided supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). The BCoT system was tested, and its functionality was verified, showing good promise to take smart water systems to a new level of innovation that may resolve the many challenges faced by countries with limited water resources and address the challenges of the 21st-century “Water 4.0” ecosystem.
用于保护和管理水资源 4.0 应用的物联网区块链
城市地区智能水监测和控制系统的设计在提供高效分配机制以减少渗漏方面发挥着举足轻重的作用,尤其是在面临水资源短缺和资源有限的地区。物联网(IoT)与区块链技术的融合可提高系统性能、增强安全性并提供去中心化和防篡改环境,这为进一步发展该系统并形成最先进的水 4.0 生态系统提供了绝佳机会。拟议的区块链物联网(BCoT)水系统是作为试点推出的,旨在探索其在提供和管理水 4.0 应用方面的潜力。以太坊平台构成了 BCoT 系统的核心,而树莓派 4 则作为区块链的节点,通过 Node-Red 编程的 MQTT 从各种传感器和微控制器收集数据。LabVIEW 软件还提供了监控和数据采集(SCADA)功能。对 BCoT 系统进行了测试,其功能得到了验证,显示出将智能水系统提升到一个新的创新水平的良好前景,这可能会解决水资源有限的国家所面临的诸多挑战,并应对 21 世纪 "水 4.0 "生态系统的挑战。
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