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<p>Considering the exponential growth of Industry 4.0, more and more devices and sensors are encapsulated in standard networks. Devices and sensors are supplying data for the decisions to be made, but this can also represent breaches in the system and can be used to conduct malfunctions over the entire system. This work presents an implementation of a decentralized system overlaid to a classic HTTP network. This methodology allows accepting data only from sensors inside the network. In this implementation, we will read with simulated sensors (using Python) the load on a CPU and send the data to the blockchain network. We will assign to every sensor a blockchain account used in sending and then identifying the data source. Using the advantages of the blockchain is securing the network, the final implementation being less susceptible to attacks such as man in the middle. This research highlights the differences (and their costs) between a bare HTTP network and the presented implementation in a matter of security and costs.</p>
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Considering the exponential growth of Industry 4.0, more and more devices and sensors are encapsulated in standard networks. Devices and sensors are supplying data for the decisions to be made, but this can also represent breaches in the system and can be used to conduct malfunctions over the entire system. This work presents an implementation of a decentralized system overlaid to a classic HTTP network. This methodology allows accepting data only from sensors inside the network. In this implementation, we will read with simulated sensors (using Python) the load on a CPU and send the data to the blockchain network. We will assign to every sensor a blockchain account used in sending and then identifying the data source. Using the advantages of the blockchain is securing the network, the final implementation being less susceptible to attacks such as man in the middle. This research highlights the differences (and their costs) between a bare HTTP network and the presented implementation in a matter of security and costs.

An Implementation of a Sensor Blockchain Network

“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University

Land Forces Academy Review

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Considering the exponential growth of Industry 4.0, more and more devices and sensors are encapsulated in standard networks. Devices and sensors are supplying...

An Implementation of a Sensor Blockchain Network

Published Online: Jan 11, 2023

Page range: 441 - 446

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2022-0052

Keywords
blockchain, sensor networks, smart contracts

© 2022 Daniel Roşca, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An Implementation of a Sensor Blockchain Network

Published Online: Jan 11, 2023

Page range: 441 - 446

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2022-0052

Keywordsblockchain, sensor networks, smart contracts

© 2022 Daniel Roşca, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
blockchain, sensor networks, smart contracts