Blockchain Technology for Weather Data Management
Marko Grebovic, Tomo Popović, Radmila Sinđić Grebović · 2023
Obtaining and distributing real-time and localized primary and secondary weather datasets is very challenging. Primary datasets are collected, aggregated, and released from government-controlled weather stations in a complicated manual bureaucratic process. They are prone to maintenance and breakdowns, which lead to missing large data sections, requiring accessible, transparent, and affordable data cleaning. Also, there is no easy way for an independent researcher or a small company to set up a weather station and aggregate it into a broader system. Secondary datasets obtained from primary ones can lead to a heterogeneous and unstandardized marketplace caused by various data formats from different providers. It is necessary to provide a transparent, immutable, accessible, and monetizable distributed weather data system based on blockchain, containing: governance, oracle, data storage, and marketplace layer.