Huge benefits in transportation can be gained if Intelligent Transportation Systems such as automated vehicles are enabled to communicate between each other, and their surrounding infrastructure in ways that are simple, reliable, and widely acceptable for human operators. At the same time, it is imperative that the security and privacy of such communications are considered. This project will demonstrate the potential of distributed ledgers such as blockchain as a method of securing the integrity of such systems.
Project Objectives
- Develop a framework for blockchain technology that allows robust engineering of domain specific block chains for Internet of Things (IoT) systems for intelligent transportation systems
- Create foundations for pre-design analysis of IoT blockchains
- Develop a methodology for blockchain-enabled IoT deployments
- Demonstrate the impacts of these technologies with a deployment in the wild
Deliverables (selected)
- Designing BC Systems for Location Aware IoT (report and research papers)
- Designing Mobile IoT (report and research papers)
- Open-source tool for optimization of B-IoT blockchain design parameters (B-Opt tool prototype)
- Open-access research papers and report on foundations and use of B-Opt tool (including white paper and technical reports where appropriate)
- Report on designing blockchain enabled key management architecture (white paper and/or research paper)
- Report on related projects in distributed ledger technology (report accessible to non-experts)
Project Contributions and Case Studies
Location Verification in the Internet of Moving Things and People (Edinburgh lead)
- Location Verification: mobile devices from beacons to smartphones, fixed infrastructure components, levels of verification, server-less architectures, privacy and attribute verification
- Design Space: participatory design methodologies, public workshops, digital/physical ethnography, experience prototyping
- Social Science and Technological Synthesis: maintain a coherent and comprehensive understanding of technical and social aspects of our R&D, synthetic view of how mobile IoT can be integrated into everyday practice
Verifiable B-IoT Technology and Trust Architectures (Imperial lead)
- B-IoT Domain Knowledge: understand technical and social aspects of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and their consequences specific to intelligent transportation systems
- B-Opt Tool: R&D for creation of open-source tool that allows modellers to explore tradeoffs in security, cost, resiliency for blockchain designs in Internet of Moving Things
- Economic and Social Value: explore potential value of B-IoT
- R&D outcomes, engaging with user partners, external groups, and standards organisations
Security and Privacy Provisioning for Intelligent Transportation Systems (Surrey lead)
- B-IoT Key Management: design and verification of decentralized and blockchain-enabled key and certificate management
- B-IoT Privacy: design of Pseudonym scheme and Pseudonym swap scheme with demonstrable benefits over existing methods, validated by simulations but also in a testbed
Coordination of Impact Activities (Warwick Manufacturing Group lead)
- Coordination of impact activities and alignment with related industry and academic projects
- Contribution to standards and policy
- Large-scale public demonstration
PROJECT CONTRIBUTIONS AND CASE STUDIES
Next event
29 May 2018
Active Travel Stakeholder Workshop: exploring active travel, geo-located smart contracts and the value of verified locations and journeys
Location: Edinburgh
Attending: Team members, user partners and active travel stakeholders