Security Assured Vehicle Data Collection Platform by Blockchain: Service Provider’s Perspective

The advancements in information and communications technology have connected the disconnected, and changed the daily lives of everybody. The automobile industry is comparatively a laggard to connect its disconnected mobility, but new efforts are introduced to put the car on the network as so called connected cars. A single vehicle contains numerous parts to be assembled just as the numerous types of data which can be collected. Like all the connected things being exposed to a cybersecurity concern, the connected cars are also being exposed to cyber-attacks which can exploit your physical safety from privacy. This research proposes security-assured vehicle data platform through closed blockchain for the service provider who facilitates the data for business. The paper is composed of following. First, the paper identifies the type of data which contains the privacy concerns that can be collected from the vehicle. Second, the authors present how the data collected from the vehicle is valuable to multiple parties. Third, the study reviews why the blockchain is an appropriate technology to collect and redistribute the vehicle collected data. Last, the research proposes a vehicle data platform with a blockchain application which assures confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of the data. The expected contributions of this research are following: First, the research identifies and proposes the value of the vehicle collected data. Second, the study determines and tackles the potential exploits from cyber-attacks to the vehicle data platform. Third, the technical extensions from blockchain to the related industries and potential participants of the platform. The study also expects to extend the technical applications with actual vehicle collected data to closed blockchain.