Enhancing Smart Building Security: Decentralized App Implementation with Blockchain Technology
Anil Kumar Patel, Pranit Bandkar, Arun Kumar Singh, A. Sheikh · 2023
With the recent advancements in the field of internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence, smart buildings are gaining popularity. Smart buildings play an essential part in offering an upscale atmosphere with lower energy usage and environmental concern in today's modern living. However, with the increased in consumer interaction with the building through IoT devices, it has open various ports for the intruders or unwanted malicious players to enter into the smart building system. In view of this the paper proposes integration of blockchain technology into smart building for enhancing the security. The paper focuses on the illumination/lighting and video surveillance systems by developing a blockchain-based decentralized application (DApp) with smart contracts and a blockchain ledger. The proposed DApp ensures the system security by authentication process with help of private key verification and thus avoids unwanted intruders into the system. For testing the effectiveness of proposed DApp a comparative analysis in terms of gas fees, transaction prioritization, and transaction speeds is presented which offers the users flexibility in balancing cost and efficiency. From the analysis it can be emphasize that the blockchain provides a resilient solution to the challenges posed by the current system.