Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments
The feedback control loop is the atomic unit in a control system. Typically, feedback control loops are rigid objects that involve a dynamical system, or plant, which has a set of its output states measured by dedicated sensors, which in turn feed a processing unit, known as controller, that calcula...
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| description | The feedback control loop is the atomic unit in a control system. Typically, feedback control loops are rigid objects that involve a dynamical system, or plant, which has a set of its output states measured by dedicated sensors, which in turn feed a processing unit, known as controller, that calculates actions to be applied as inputs to the plant, via elements known as actuators, in order to drive the outputs to a desired value or trajectory. The appearance of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, where a large number of sensors and processing units interact over a communication network, offers an underlying infrastructure to operate and configure control loops using a different logic: an on-demand strategy. This work introduces the concept of on-demand control loop, and proposes the use of blockchain technology as the enabling infrastructure for generating on-demand control loops over large-scale IoT environments. General design guidelines are given and a simple implementation example over the Ethereum blockchain is presented, which shows the feasibility of the proposed technique. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84af767d167a401380e0b2fc121942a02022-12-21T20:02:56ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01715752415753410.1109/ACCESS.2019.29497348883271Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot EnvironmentsJose Joaquin Mendoza0Felipe Nunez1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8741-717XDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileThe feedback control loop is the atomic unit in a control system. Typically, feedback control loops are rigid objects that involve a dynamical system, or plant, which has a set of its output states measured by dedicated sensors, which in turn feed a processing unit, known as controller, that calculates actions to be applied as inputs to the plant, via elements known as actuators, in order to drive the outputs to a desired value or trajectory. The appearance of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, where a large number of sensors and processing units interact over a communication network, offers an underlying infrastructure to operate and configure control loops using a different logic: an on-demand strategy. This work introduces the concept of on-demand control loop, and proposes the use of blockchain technology as the enabling infrastructure for generating on-demand control loops over large-scale IoT environments. General design guidelines are given and a simple implementation example over the Ethereum blockchain is presented, which shows the feasibility of the proposed technique.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8883271/Internet of Thingsdistributed controlcyber-physical-systemsblockchain |
| spellingShingle | Jose Joaquin Mendoza Felipe Nunez Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments IEEE Access Internet of Things distributed control cyber-physical-systems blockchain |
| title | Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments |
| title_full | Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments |
| title_fullStr | Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments |
| title_short | Blockchain-Driven on-Demand Control Loops Over Iot Environments |
| title_sort | blockchain driven on demand control loops over iot environments |
| topic | Internet of Things distributed control cyber-physical-systems blockchain |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8883271/ |
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