Abstract
This article describes different methods of organizing robotic services for smart cities using secure encrypted decentralized technologies and market mechanisms—as opposed to models based on centralized solutions based (or not) on using cloud services and stripping citizens of the control of their own data. The basis of the proposed methods is the Ethereum decentralized computer with the mechanism of smart contracts. In this work, special attention is paid to the integration of technical and economic information into one network of transactions, which allows creating a unified way of interaction between robots—the robot economy. Three possible scenarios of robotic services for smart cities based on the economy of robots are presented: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), environmental monitoring, and smart factories. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed scenarios, three experiments are presented and discussed. Our work shows that the Ethereum network can provide, through smart contracts and their ability to activate programs to interact with the physical world, an effective and practical way to manage robot services for smart cities.
Highlights
In recent years, the demand for robotic devices for business and for personal use has significantly increased
Special attention is paid to the integration of technical and economic information into one network of transactions, which allows creating a unified way of interaction between robots— the robot economy
Our work shows that the Ethereum network can provide, through smart contracts and their ability to activate programs to interact with the physical world, an effective and practical way to manage robot services for smart cities
Summary
The demand for robotic devices for business and for personal use has significantly increased. An increasing amount of technologies are being added to the field of smart urban management, and new solutions for the organization and commercialization of their work are being sought.[6,7] Before such ambitious projects can be undertaken, large-scale problems of creation of giant multi-agent networks of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) must be solved. The key issue of introducing CPSs to the market is to create value and make profit from their activities, and for this it is necessary to guarantee coordination of economic and technical transactions within one secure and distributed network These questions force researchers to search for technologies that can solve the problems of multi-agent systems for a smart city and to satisfy society’s demands.
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