TY - GEN
T1 - Blockchain for Smart Cities
T2 - 17th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2020
AU - Georgiou, Ifigenia
AU - Nell, Juan Geoffrey
AU - Kokkinaki, Angelika I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We use a systematic literature review methodology to answer the following questions pertaining to smart cities and blockchain: (i) Why was blockchain chosen as the solution? (ii) What blockchains are being considered for use in smart cities and why? and (iii) What blockchain based applications are being researched for smart cities? Our results - based on 45 peer-reviewed academic studies all published in journals that met pre-defined search criteria - show that increased security, privacy, and trust are the reasons most cited in the literature for the use of blockchain for smart cities. Consortium, Hybrid, Private, and Public blockchains are discussed with respect to their suitability for smart cities applications, and finally, we discuss smart cities blockchain applications from the literature using a taxonomy based on the framework defined by Silva et al. [40]. In conclusion, this study highlights the current blockchain challenges and future research opportunities, including the need to change the current mindset of centralized control and trusted third parties to a more participative engagement model across smart cities.
AB - We use a systematic literature review methodology to answer the following questions pertaining to smart cities and blockchain: (i) Why was blockchain chosen as the solution? (ii) What blockchains are being considered for use in smart cities and why? and (iii) What blockchain based applications are being researched for smart cities? Our results - based on 45 peer-reviewed academic studies all published in journals that met pre-defined search criteria - show that increased security, privacy, and trust are the reasons most cited in the literature for the use of blockchain for smart cities. Consortium, Hybrid, Private, and Public blockchains are discussed with respect to their suitability for smart cities applications, and finally, we discuss smart cities blockchain applications from the literature using a taxonomy based on the framework defined by Silva et al. [40]. In conclusion, this study highlights the current blockchain challenges and future research opportunities, including the need to change the current mindset of centralized control and trusted third parties to a more participative engagement model across smart cities.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Decentralization
KW - Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - Sharing economy
KW - Smart cities, blockchain
KW - Smart contracts
KW - Systematic literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097576774&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63396-7_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63396-7_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097576774
SN - 9783030633950
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 169
EP - 187
BT - Information Systems - 17th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Themistocleous, Marinos
A2 - Papadaki, Maria
A2 - Kamal, Muhammad Mustafa
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 25 November 2020 through 26 November 2020
ER -
