Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments

Mendoza J.J.; Nunez F.

Abstract

The feedback control loop is the atomic unit in a control system. Typically, feedback control loops are rigid objects that involve a dynamical system, or plant, which has a set of its output states measured by dedicated sensors, which in turn feed a processing unit, known as controller, that calculates actions to be applied as inputs to the plant, via elements known as actuators, in order to drive the outputs to a desired value or trajectory. The appearance of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, where a large number of sensors and processing units interact over a communication network, offers an underlying infrastructure to operate and configure control loops using a different logic: an on-demand strategy. This work introduces the concept of on-demand control loop, and proposes the use of blockchain technology as the enabling infrastructure for generating on-demand control loops over large-scale IoT environments. General design guidelines are given and a simple implementation example over the Ethereum blockchain is presented, which shows the feasibility of the proposed technique.

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Título según WOS: Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments
Título según SCOPUS: Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops over Iot Environments
Título de la Revista: IEEE ACCESS
Volumen: 7
Editorial: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 157524
Página final: 157534
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949734

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS